City Life from Jakarta to Dakar : Movements at the Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9780415993210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 403 str.

AbdouMaliq Simone

Opis

'Urbanizing a New Global South' focuses on the politics incumbent to this process - an 'anticipatory politics' - that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies.

Spis treści

1. On Cityness  2. Towards an Anticipatory Urban Politics  3. Intersections: What Can Urban Residents Do With Each Other?  4. Circulations: Finance As a Model of City Making  5.Back to Intersection and Recharging the City  6. Reclaiming Black Urbanism

O autorze

AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1977 he has had many jobs in different cities across African and Southeast Asia, in the fields of education, housing, social welfare, urban development, and local government. His best known publications are In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan, and For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities.