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    African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
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    African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

    By Professor Garth Myers

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    In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies.

    Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes.

    Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateApr 14, 2011
    ISBN9781780321332
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    African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
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    Professor Garth Myers

    Garth Andrew Myers is Director of the Kansas African Studies Centre and Professor in the Departments of Geography and African/African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Syracuse, 2003) and Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa (Ashgate, 2005), and the co-editor (with Martin Murray) of Cities in Contemporary Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He has published or co-authored more than 40 articles and book chapters, with the vast majority on African urban development topics. His research emphasizes eastern and southern African cities, primarily.

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