Politics And The Urban Frontier: Transformation Divergence In Late Urbanizing East Africa Tom Goodfellow Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία

This Is An Open Access Title Available Under The Terms Of A Cc By-Nc-Nd 4 0 International Licence It Free To Read On Oxford Academic Platform And Offered As Pdf Download From Oup Selected Locations Despite Rise Global Technocratic Ideals City-Making Cities Around World Are Not Merging Into Indistinguishable Duplicates One Another In Fact Urbanizes Urban Formations Remain Diverse Their Socioeconomic Spatial Characteristics With Varying Potential Foster Economic Development Social Justice Book Tom Goodfellow Argues That These Differences Primarily Rooted Politics If We Continue View Technological Projects Be Managed Rather Than Terrains Political Bargaining Contestation Quest For Better Futures Doomed Fail Dominant Critical Approaches Tend Explain Difference Reference Variegated Impacts Neoliberal Regulatory Institutions However Neglects Multiple Ways Which Wider Capital Accumulation Distribution Drive Divergent Forms Transformation Different Places Order Unpack Shapes Differential Focuses East Africa Frontier: Least Urbanized But Fastest Urbanizing Region Drawing Decade Research Spanning Three Case Study Countries (Ethiopia Rwanda Uganda) Frontier Provides First Sustained Book-Length Comparative Analysis Trajectories Eastern Dynamics Underpin Them Through Focus Infrastructure Investment Propertyscapes Street-Level Trading Economies Protest Offers Multi-Scalar Historically-Grounded Interdisciplinary Transformations Unfolding World\ S Most Dynamic Crucible Change Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 16 5X16 5Cm