African Cities and the Development Conundrum

Foreword

Preface

List of Illustrations

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 African Cities and the Development Conundrum Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone

 Till Förster and Carole Ammann

2 The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces

 Edgar Pieterse

Part 2: Urban Governance

3 Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview

 Warren Smit

4 Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

 Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin

5 Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? The Difficult Reframing of State Mandates and Practices in the Post-apartheid Era

 Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

Part 3: Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone

6 Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive?

 Ton Dietz

7 Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia

 Lalli Metsola

8 Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation Addressing Contextual and Spatial Indifference in Design, Urban Planning and International Cooperation: A Case Study from Addis Ababa

 Sascha Delz

9 Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach?

 Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu

Part 4: The Rural-Urban Continuum

10 The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation

 Garth Myers

11 Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men’s Discourses about Pikine (Senegal)

 Sebastian Prothmann

12 The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi

 Florian Stoll

13 Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo

 Karen Büscher

Index