African cities and collaborative futures : urban platforms and metropolitan logistics /: urban platforms and metropolitan logistics. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos.
• Editors: Keith, Michael, 1960-; Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza
• Contents: 1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos2 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 Masikane3 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 Boubacar4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa – Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia5 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 Swyngedouw6 ‘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 Wolpe7 Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam – Irmelin Joelsson8 Conclusion: from an ‘infrastructural turn’ to the platform logics of logistics – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza SantosIndex
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.76096; Cities and towns -- Africa; Cities and towns -- Africa -- Forecasting; Cities and towns -- Africa -- Growth -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526155344; 9781526155351
• Related ISBNs: 9781526155368
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