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Author Jenkins, Paul, 1953- author.

Title Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city : home spaces and house cultures / by Paul Jenkins
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Africa Connects
Africa connects.
Contents The aims and objectives of the book -- The intellectual approach of the book -- Contextualization at macro-level -- Contextualizing at meso-level -- Contextualizing at micro-level -- Life stories -- Integrated findings -- Key issues arising -- Queries and proposals
Summary Sub-Saharan Africa is often considered to be the last global macro-region in the world to go through a rapid urbanization process, leading to the majority of the population living in cities and towns. Despite common misunderstandings to the contrary, the urbanization process in this region has historic roots, and although this has accelerated in the post-colonial era, it continues to display distinctive spaces and forms due to particular political, economic, social, and cultural contexts. This book explores the features of recent urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa through a remarkably detailed and wide-ranging case study of Mozambique's capital city Maputo, including longitudinal physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes. The findings of this study reflect not only the weakness of state capacity in the region in urban intervention, but also the continued basis for urban development activity by residents, in social and economic terms as well as the importance of culturally constructed identities and social relations. Maputo and cities like it are very much a collective "urban" in the making - and the final form that they take remains to be seen in terms of urbanism and urbanity
Notes "[D]raws on a recent three year (2009-12) international and inter-disciplinary research program 'Home Space in the African City'"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Urbanization -- Mozambique
Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Domestic space -- Mozambique -- Maputo
Households -- Mozambique -- Maputo
Community development, Urban -- Mozambique -- Maputo
Urban policy -- Mozambique -- Maputo
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Community development, Urban
Domestic space
Households
Urban policy
Urbanization
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mozambique
Mozambique -- Maputo
Form Electronic book
Author Home Space in the African City (Project)
ISBN 9781137380173
1137380179