The city in modern Africa
Subtitle: [papers]
By: edited by Horace Miner.
Contributors: Miner, Horace Mitchell, 1912- ed.; Joint Committee on African Studies.
Series: The Praeger library of African affairs; Sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Table of contents: title: The city and modernisation: an introduction, by H. Miner.; title: Comparative analysis of processes of modernisation, by D. Lerner.; title: Motives and methods: reflections on a study in Lagos, by P. Marris.; title: Africa and the theory of optimum city size, by J. J. Spengler.; title: Urbanisation and economic growth: the cases of two white settler territories, by W. J. Barber.; title: Structural discontinuities in African towns: some aspects of racial pluralism, by L. Kuper.; title: The political structure of urban-centered African communities, by W. J. Hanna and J. L. Hanna.; title: Bureaucracy and urban symbol systems, by L. Tiger.; title: Father-child relationships and changing life-styles in Ibadan, Nigeria, by R. A. Levine, N. H. Klein and C. R. Owen.; title: Environmental change, types of descent, and child rearing practices, by R. Clignet.; title: Kampala-Mengo, by A. Southall.; title: List of works cited (p. 337-353)