African cities and collaborative futures : urban platforms and metropolitan logistics / Edited By Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska De Souza Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keith, Michael, 1960- editor.

Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza, editor.

Series:

Global urban transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Africa.

Cities and towns.

Growth.

Forecasting.

Africa.

Cities and towns--Africa--Forecasting.

Cities and towns--Africa--Growth--Case studies.

Cities and towns--Forecasting.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities / Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos

2. At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia / Fikile Masikane

3. Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan urban transformation / Soumana Boubacar

4. Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal setdements in Durban, South Africa / Claudia Loggia

5. Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa's urban waste sector / Erik Swyngedouw

6. `Candles are not bright enough': inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality / Peta Wolpe

7. Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam / Irmelin Joelsson

8. Conclusion: from an `infrastructural turn' to the platform logics of logistics / Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526155368

1526155362

OCLC:

1233317705