LEADER 03218nam 2200493Ia 450 001 9910557163703321 005 20231101071823.0 010 $a1-5261-5535-4 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526155351 035 $a(CKB)5590000000438640 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63977 035 $a(DE-B1597)660645 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526155351 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000438640 100 $a20231101h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAfrican cities and collaborative futures $eUrban platforms and metropolitan logistics /$fed. by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 210 1$aManchester : $cManchester University Press, $d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 electronic resource (208 p.) 225 0 $aGlobal Urban Transformations 311 $a1-5261-5536-2 330 $aThis groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability of African cities, as seen through local narratives of residents. Drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, the contributions offer a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century.At a time when the future of the region as a whole will be determined in large part by its cities, the implications of these developments are profound. With case studies from cities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, this volume 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 collaborate to meet the challenge of rapid growth, environmental pressures and resource gaps.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11, Sustainable cities and communities 606 $aUrban communities$2bicssc 606 $aSouthern Africa$2bicssc 606 $aHuman geography$2bicssc 606 $aDevelopment studies$2bicssc 610 $aAfrican cities; infrastructure; seeing like a city 615 7$aUrban communities 615 7$aSouthern Africa 615 7$aHuman geography 615 7$aDevelopment studies 702 $aKeith$b Michael, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSantos$b Andreza Aruska de Souza, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557163703321 996 $aAfrican cities and collaborative futures$93363485 997 $aUNINA