African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation? [Hardcover]

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems.PART 1: INTRODUCTION Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa; D.F.Bryceson African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustenance; D.F.Bryceson Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects; D.Potts PART 2: CITY ECONOMIES IN THE MAKING Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?; P.Jenkins Mombasa's Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?; C.Rakodi Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm; A.Nuwagaba PART 3: URBAN LIVELIHOODS AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS Urban Poverty in East Africa: Comparing the Trajectories of Nairobi and Kampala; P.Amis Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the End of the Millennium; Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life; N.Nelson Resilience of a City in Civil War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu; R.Marchal PART 4: URBAN WELFARE, HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg; J.Beall Esther's House: One Woman's 'Home Economics' in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe; A.Schlyter From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone; O.Selowane Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam; S.Ngware PART 5: CONCLUSION Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa's Apex Cities; D.Bryceson