African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation?

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
About the authors......Page 9
Part I Introduction......Page 16
1 Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa......Page 18
2 African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustainability......Page 54
3 Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects......Page 82
Part II City Economies in the Making......Page 120
4 Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?......Page 122
5 Mombasa\'s Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?......Page 146
6 Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm......Page 166
Part III Urban Livelihoods and Social Dynamics......Page 182
7 Urban Poverty in East Africa: Nairobi and Kampala\'s Comparative Trajectories......Page 184
8 Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the Millennium: Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life......Page 199
9 Resilience of a City at War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu......Page 222
Part IV Urban Welfare, Housing and Infrastructure......Page 246
10 A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg......Page 248
11 Esther\'s House: One Woman\'s \'Home Economics\' in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe......Page 269
12 From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone, Botswana......Page 293
13 Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania......Page 316
Part V Conclusion......Page 332
14 Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa\'s Apex Cities......Page 334
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U......Page 367
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