The Suburban Frontier : Middle-Class Construction in Dar Es Salaam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercer, Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam.

Middle class.

Real estate investment--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam.

Real estate investment.

Suburbs--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam.

Suburbs.

Urbanization--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer details how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa's middle classes are shaped. As the first book-length analysis of Africa's suburban middle class, The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.

Contents:

Cover

Subvention

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

A Note on Exchange Rates

A Note on Pseudonyms and Place Names

Introduction

1. Groundwork

2. The Suburban Frontier

3. Land

4. Landscape

5. Domestic Architecture

6. Lifestyle

Conclusion

Glossary of Swahili Words

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520402393

OCLC:

1439566023