DIY Urbanism in Africa - Politics and Practice

Across Africa, protracted economic crises and enduring class stratification have impacted a majority of the continent''s city-dwellers, meaning that urban residents are forced to draw on their own resources and skills, often adopting experimental approaches to sustaining access to services and livelihoods.This ''do-it-yourself'' urbanism has generally been appraised through a developmental lens, in which case studies are understood in isolation. In this book, a comparative and cross-regional approach seeks to analyze this phenomenon across the continent, and to gain an understanding of the dynamics of DIY urbanism in a range of cities where urban residents experience economic distress and marginalization.Does DIY urbanism present a form of resistance, or merely an acquiescence, to the inequalities that make it necessary? And what prospect is there for a radical politics to come out of this grassroots organization, to make cities work better for their poorest, and most marginalised, residents?>

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Marr, Stephen (Malmoe University Marr, Stephen Mususa Marr, Patience Mususa, Patience (Nordic Africa Institute Mususa
• Assisted by: Stephen Marr (Editor), Patience Mususa (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786999023
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-902-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 250 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Africa Now
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, urban economics, Small businesses and self-employment, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Regional / urban economics