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Africa's Legacies of Urbanization
Unfolding Saga of a Continent
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2006
Summary
The ability to function safely, healthily, and productively in urban places is a continuing challenge for people everywhere. This challenge is exacerbated when the resources available to people in urban places happen to be severely limited or their ability to make decisions consistent with their welfare severely constrained. Nevertheless, Africans have manifested great inventiveness and resourcefulness both in contributing to, and in adapting to, urbanization. Africa's Legacies of Urbanization is the culmination of several decades of research, travel, and teaching. Goodwin provides an interdisciplinary and up-to-date look at African cities and the urbanization process. This thought provoking and engaging work tackles the vastness of the 'mother continent' by dividing it into geographic regions: western, central, southern, eastern, and northeastern. Beginning with an overview of the urban experience in Africa, Goodwin then studies the histories of urbanization in the various regions of the continent. Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, this comprehensive work will appeal to scholars of African studies, urban studies, anthropology, and cultural ecology.
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Edition
1/2006
Copyright Year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0731-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3349-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
516
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
1 Urban Process and the Human Condition No access
2 Challenges of Settlement: An Ecological Perspective No access
3 Emergence of Cities: The Centrality of Africa No access
4 Macedonians, Greeks, Romans, Africans No access
5 Legacies into the Late 14th Century No access
6 Retrenchment and Consolidation No access
7 Jihads, European Hegemony, and Beyond No access
8 Great Transformation: Commerce to Conquest No access
9 From Scramble to Struggle No access
10 Innocence, Greed, Imperialism No access
11 Tribulations, Trials, Opportunities No access
12 Early Legacies from Near the Sea No access
13 Beyond Suez: Continuing Challenges No access
14 Through the Era of Muhammad Ali No access
15 Northeastern Africa Evolving No access
Postspective No access Pages 439 - 458
Bibliography No access Pages 459 - 478
Index No access Pages 479 - 514
About the Author No access Pages 515 - 516
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