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

Deborah Fahy Bryceson
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson: African Studies Centre, Oxford University

Chapter 14 in African Urban Economies, 2006, pp 319-340 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The course of East and Southern African urbanization over the 20th century was not aligned with industrial development. Nor was it associated with rising average incomes or steady improvements in agricultural productivity as was the case in the early urbanization of Britain and the Netherlands (Wrigley 1987). One may well ask whether we are witnessing a new form of the urbanization process fuelled by as yet undefined forces. Comparison of the urbanization trends between countries in East and Southern Africa yields some useful clues (Figure 14.1).

Keywords: Direct Foreign Investment; Informal Sector; Urban Economy; Urban Poverty; Southern African Development Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_14

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