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Author : David Anderson
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Africa's Urban Past by : David Anderson
Download or read book Africa's Urban Past written by David Anderson. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers first delivered at the conference on Africa's Urban Past, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.
Author : David Anderson
Release : 2000-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Africa's Urban Past by : David Anderson
Download or read book Africa's Urban Past written by David Anderson. This book was released on 2000-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey reveals a remarkable depth of urbanization in African history.
Author : Steven J. Salm
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 140/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective by : Steven J. Salm
Download or read book African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective written by Steven J. Salm. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.
Author : Carlos Nunes Silva
Release : 2015-06-03
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 16X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Carlos Nunes Silva
Download or read book Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Carlos Nunes Silva. This book was released on 2015-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning practices and future reforms. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa gives a broad perspective of the history of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and a critical view of issues, problems, challenges and opportunities confronting urban policy makers. The book examines the rich variety of planning cultures in Africa, offers a unique view on the introduction and development of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and makes a significant contribution against the tendency to over-generalize Africa’s urban problems and Africa’s urban planning practices. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa is written for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates, researchers, planners and other policy makers in the multidisciplinary field of Urban Planning, in particular for those working in Spatial Planning, Architecture, Geography, and History.
Author : Bill Freund
Release : 2007-03-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 554/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The African City by : Bill Freund
Download or read book The African City written by Bill Freund. This book was released on 2007-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
