The African City
Subtitle: A History
Series: New Approaches to African History; New approaches to African history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780511333996
Subjects: Urbanization; Cities and towns; Social sciences
Description: Gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Urban life emerges in africa; Chapter 2 African Cities and the Emergence of a World Trading Economy; Chapter 3 Colonialism and Urbanisation; Chapter 4 Cities in Revolt: The Long-Term Crisis of South African Urbanism; Chapter 5 The Post-Colonial African City; Chapter 6 Globalisation and the african city: touba, abidjan, durban; Index.