African cities and collaborative futures : Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics / edited by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza, editor.

Keith, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Forecasting.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 190 pages)

Other Title:

African cities and collaborative futures

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Summary:

African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the nature of African cities - the interactions of residents with infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability, seen through local narratives and theories. This groundbreaking collection, drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters, using case studies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, explores how the rapid growth of African cities is reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed. How can we 'see like a city' in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision-makers and international practitioners can work together to achieve better outcomes.

Contents:

1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities

Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos

2 At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia

Paula Meth, Alison Todes, Sarah Charlton, Tatenda Mukwedeya, Jennifer Houghton, Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu, Zhengli Huang, Divine Mawuli Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi and Fikile Masikane

3 Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan urban transformation

Mark Pelling, Alejandro Barcena, Hayley Leck, Ibidun Adelekan, David Dodman, Hamadou Issaka, Cassidy Johnson, Mtafu Manda, Blessing Mberu, Ezebunwa Nwokocha, Emmanuel Osuteye and Soumana Boubacar

4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa

Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia

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

Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes and Erik Swyngedouw

6 'Candles are not bright enough': inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality?

Federico Caprotti, Jon Phillips, Saska Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski, Stephen Essex, Jiska de Groot, Lucy Baker, Yachika Reddy and 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

Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Manchester University Press, viewed May 11, 2023).