ISBN:
9780192594563
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xix, 332 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Goodfellow, Tom Politics and the urban frontier
DDC:
307.7609676
Keywords:
Urbanization-Africa, East
;
Urbanization-Political aspects-Africa, East
;
Verstädterung
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Stadtplanung
;
Infrastrukturpolitik
;
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Entwicklung
;
Tendenz
;
Electronic books
;
Ostafrika
;
Ostafrika
;
Verstädterung
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Variation
;
Kommunalpolitik
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
This book 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.
Abstract:
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.
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