Mining and African Urbanisation - Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories

List of contents

1. Eureka and beyond: mining’s impact on African urbanisation 2. Mining, housing and welfare in South Africa and Zambia: an historical perspective 3. The power of mining: the fall of gold and rise of Johannesburg 4. Mining, welfare and urbanisation: the wavering urban character of Zambia’s Copperbelt 5. Of prosperity, ghost towns and havens: mining and urbanisation in Zimbabwe 6. Botswana’s mining path to urbanisation and poverty alleviation 7. Unearthing treasure and trouble: mining as an impetus to urbanisation in Tanzania 8. Exploring the connections: mining and urbanisation in Ghana 9. A tale of two cities: urban transformation in gold-centred Butembo and diamond-rich Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo 10. Angola’s planned and unplanned urban growth: diamond mining towns in the Lunda Provinces 11. Diamond mining, urbanisation and social transformation in Sierra Leone

About the author

Deborah Fahy Bryceson is aReader in Urban Studies at theSchool of Geographicaland Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

Daniel MacKinnon is aSenior Research Fellowin Urban Studies at theSchool of Geographicaland Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

Summary

This book probes settlement patterns and welfare dimensions of urban change associated with African mining amidst an unprecedented spiral in global mineral prices. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah F (University of Glasgow Bryceson, Deborah F Mackinnon Bryceson, Deborah Fahy Mackinnon Bryceson
• Assisted by: Deborah F Bryceson (Editor), Daniel F MacKinnon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138383289
• ISBN: 978-1-138-38328-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Economics of industrial organisation, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Mining Industry, Economics of industrial organization, Extractive industries