African Cities by Myers, Professor Garth

African Cities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848135093)

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African Cities by Myers, Professor Garth

African Cities

$30.95
African Cities by Myers, Professor Garth

African Cities

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Garth Myers
ISBN-10: 1848135092
ISBN-13: 9781848135093
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Garth Myers
By Garth Myers
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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 (2003) and Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa (2005), and the co-editor (with Martin Murray) of Cities in Contemporary Africa (2006).
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 (2003) and Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa (2005), and the co-editor (with Martin Murray) of Cities in Contemporary Africa (2006).

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