Disposable cities
Subtitle: garbage governance, and sustainable development in urban Africa
By: by Garth Andrew Myers.
Series: Re-materialising cultural geography
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Urbanization -- Africa; Sustainable development -- Africa; Refuse and refuse disposal -- Africa; Urban ecology -- Africa
Description: "Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). Focusing on the SCP's policies for solid waste management, which was identified as the top priority problem by the SCP, the book examines the success of these pilot schemes and the SCP's record in building new relationships between people and government. It argues that the SCP has operated in a political vacuum, without recognition of the long and problematic histories and cultural politics of urban environmental governance in Eastern and Southern Africa. This book brings these cultural and political histories to the fore in its examination of the contemporary dynamics. In doing so, it not only provides an insightful analysis of the policies and outcomes for the SCP, but also puts forward a historically grounded critique of neoliberalism, good governance and sustainable development discourses."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a political ecology of African cities; title: The Sustainable Cities Program and African cities; title: Dar es Salaam : model city for the world; title: The mirror that Zanzibar holds up for the world; title: Lusaka : the years of the rule of money; title: Conclusion.