African Urban Economies

Edited by Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Deborah Potts

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Date: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-52301-2
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Ch 2 African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustainability

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

Ch 3 Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects

Deborah Potts

Ch 4 Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?

Paul Jenkins

Ch 5 Mombasa’s Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?

Carole Rakodi

Ch 6 Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm

Augustus Nuwagaba

Ch 7 Urban Poverty in East Africa: Nairobi and Kampala’s Comparative Trajectories

Philip Amis

Ch 8 Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the Millennium: Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life

Priscilla Wanjiru Kariuki and Nici Nelson

Ch 9 Resilience of a City at War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu

Roland Marchal

Ch 10 A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg

Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Sue Parnell

Ch 11 Esther’s House: One Woman’s ‘Home Economics’ in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

Ann Schlyter

Ch 12 From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone, Botswana

Onalenna Doo Selolwane

Ch 13 Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Suleiman S. Ngware

Ch 14 Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa’s Apex Cities

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

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