ISBN:
9781137380173
,
1137380179
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 274 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2014 Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Africa Connects
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Jenkins, Paul, - 1953- Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city
DDC:
307.1416/096791
Keywords:
Fallstudie
;
Verstädterung
;
Stadt
;
Stadtplanung
;
Gemeinwesenarbeit
;
Wohnung
;
Architektur
;
Moçambique
;
Maputo
;
Verstädterung
;
Wohnungsbau
Abstract:
PART I: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL 1. The Aims and Objectives of the Book 2. The Intellectual Approach of the Book PART II: CONTEXTUAL MATERIAL 3. Contextualization at Macro-level 4. Contextualizing at Meso-level 5. Contextualizing at Micro -level PART III: EMPIRICAL MATERIAL 6. Life Stories 7. Integrated Findings 8. Key Issues Arising PART IV: CONCLUDING MATERIAL 9. Queries and Proposals
Abstract:
Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes, Sub-Saharan Africa is often considered to be the last global macro-region in the world to go through a rapid urbanization process, leading to the majority of the population living in cities and towns. Despite common misunderstandings to the contrary, the urbanization process in this region has historic roots, and although this has accelerated in the post-colonial era, it continues to display distinctive spaces and forms due to particular political, economic, social, and cultural contexts. This book explores the features of recent urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa through a remarkably detailed and wide-ranging case study of Mozambique's capital city Maputo, including longitudinal physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes. The findings of this study reflect not only the weakness of state capacity in the region in urban intervention, but also the continued basis for urban development activity by residents, in social and economic terms as well as the importance of culturally constructed identities and social relations. Maputo and cities like it are very much a collective "urban" in the making - and the final form that they take remains to be seen in terms of urbanism and urbanity
Abstract:
to come
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137380166, 2013
DOI:
10.1057/9781137380173
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