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  title info:
    title: African cities and collaborative futures
    sub title: urban platforms and metropolitan logistics
  name:
    name part: Keith, Michael
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 190 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the nature of African cities - the interactions of residents with infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability, seen through local narratives and theories. This groundbreaking collection, drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters, using case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, explores how the rapid growth of African cities is reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed. How can we 'see like a city' in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision-makers and international practitioners can work together to achieve better outcomes.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities -- Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos2 At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia -- Paula Meth, Alison Todes, Sarah Charlton, Tatenda Mukwedeya, Jennifer Houghton, Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu, Zhengli Huang, Divine Mawuli Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi and Fikile Masikane3 Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan urban transformation -- Mark Pelling, Alejandro Barcena, Hayley Leck, Ibidun Adelekan, David Dodman, Hamadou Issaka, Cassidy Johnson, Mtafu Manda, Blessing Mberu, Ezebunwa Nwokocha, Emmanuel Osuteye and Soumana Boubacar4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa -- Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia5 Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa's urban waste sector -- Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes and Erik Swyngedouw6 'Candles are not bright enough': inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality? -- Federico Caprotti, Jon Phillips, Saska Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski, Stephen Essex, Jiska de Groot, Lucy Baker, Yachika Reddy and Peta Wolpe7 Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam -- Irmelin Joelsson8 Conclusion: from an 'infrastructural turn' to the platform logics of logistics -- Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza SantosIndex
  note: edited by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska De Souza Santos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Growth
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Villes
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    topic: Villes
    geographic: Afrique
    topic: Prévision
  subject:
    topic: Villes
    geographic: Afrique
    topic: Croissance
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Urban communities
  subject:
    topic: Southern Africa
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Development studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns
    topic: Growth
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: African cities; infrastructure; seeing like a city
  classification: HT148.A2 A33 2021eb
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    origin info:
      publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021
    identifier: (OCoLC)1233317705
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    record creation date: 210713
    record change date: 20250729213201.2
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng