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

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

Simone, Abdoumaliq

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General Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822334348
ISBN13: 9780822334347
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 7 2004
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure. In For the City Yet to Come, AbdouMaliq Simone argues that by overlooking all that does work in Africa's cities, this perspective forecloses opportunities to capitalize on existing informal economies and structures in development efforts within Africa and to apply lessons drawn from them to rapidly growing urban areas around the world. Simone contends that Africa's cities do work on some level and to the extent that they do, they function largely through fluid, makeshift collective actions running parallel to proliferating decentralized local authorities, small-scale enterprises, and community associations.

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