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transformation and divergence in late urbanizing East Africa
1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
This publication offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world's most dynamic crucible of urban change.
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Map of East Africa -- Impressions -- Part I Urban Tectonics -- 1 East Africa and the politics of late urbanization -- Introduction -- 1.1 The peripheral frontier -- 1.2 Late urbanization -- 1.3 Cities in a world of regions -- 1.4 Scaling the politics of urban development -- 1.5 Structure of the argument -- 1.6 Organization of the book -- 2 Transformation and divergence: Explaining contemporary urban development trajectories -- Introduction -- 2.1 Causal force and urban change
2.2 The distribution of associational power -- 2.3 The pursuit of social legitimacy -- 2.4 Modalities of political informality -- 2.5 Legacies and practices of infrastructural reach -- 2.6 A level-abstracted view of the politics of urban transformation -- Part II Urban Foundations -- 3 The making of urban territory -- Introduction -- 3.1 Land, territory, and property in the making of urban East Africa -- 3.2 Precolonial dynamics and the emergence of land regimes -- 3.3 The colonial encounter and urban territorialization -- 3.4 Independence and revolution
3.5 Land and urban territory under the new rebel statesmen -- 3.6 Conclusions: Land regimes, urban territory, and violent transitions -- 4 The making of urban economies -- Introduction -- 4.1 The early foundations of a regional trading economy -- 4.2 Limits to economic transformation in the imperial period -- 4.3 From high hopes to crisis -- 4.4 East Africa's development labs -- 4.5 Conclusions: Towards a contemporary urban political economy -- Part III Urban Currents -- 5 New urban visions and the infrastructure boom -- Introduction -- 5.1 The politics of urban neglect
5.2 Growing urban appetites -- 5.3 The African `infrastructure gap' as a twenty-first-century priority -- 5.4 China and the Ethiopian urban `renaissance': The light railway in Addis Ababa -- 5.5 Kigali's tourist infrastructures of regional ambition -- 5.6 The `world's most expensive road': The Kampala-Entebbe Expressway -- 5.7 The comparative politics of urban mega-infrastructure -- 6 Urban propertyscapes -- Introduction -- 6.1 Real estate out of the ashes -- 6.2 East African propertyscapes: Landlords, bubbles, and skeletons -- 6.3 The politics of mass housing
6.4 Reading the politics of urban propertyscapes -- 7 Working the city: Vendors, ""2018untouchables""2019, and street fugitives -- Introduction -- 7.1 Informality and urban life -- 7.2 The marketplace: Urban politics etched in economic space -- 7.3 The street economy: Forbearance, hunting, and hustle -- 7.4 Conclusions -- 8 The politics of noise and silence: Negotiation, mobilization, refusal -- Introduction -- 8.1 The political city in East Africa -- 8.2 The evolution of urban political cultures -- 8.3 Kampala: Normalizing noise -- 8.4 Kigali: Silence and its limits
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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