For the City Yet to Come - Changing African Life in Four Cities

A study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Remaking African Cities 1

1. The Informal: The Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal 21

2. The Invisible: Winterveld, South Africa 63

3. The Spectral: Assembling Douala, Cameroon 92

4. Movement: The Zawiyyah as the City 118

5. Reconciling Engagement and Belonging: Some Matters of History 136

6. The Production and Management of Urban Resources 178

7. Cities and Change 213

Notes 245

References 269

Index 291

About the author

AbdouMaliq Simone is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at New School University. He is the author of In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan and, with David Hecht, Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics.

Summary

A study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning

Product details

• Authors: AbdouMaliq Simone, A. M. Simone, AbdouMaliq Simone
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2004
• EAN: 9780822334347
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3434-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories