Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

ISBN-13: 9780198853107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

Goodfellow

Recenzje

Goodfellow's cross-national focus on the rapidly growing cities of Kigali, Kampala, and Addis Ababa offers a rich and timely response to the call for greater comparison by scholars in Urban Studies. His exploration of the different drivers of state infrastructural power, urban real estate markets, street vending, or patterns of political dissent in Africa's cities will inform and inspire important conversations among social scientists in development studies, political science, and urban studies.

O autorze

Tom Goodfellow is a Professor of Urban Studies and International Development at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of urban development and change in Africa, particularly the politics of urban land and transportation, conflicts around infrastructure and housing, migration, and urban institutional change. His current and recent research has involved collaborations with a range of institutional partners including Addis Ababa University, Hawassa University, Makerere University, and Wits University. He is co-author of Cities and Development (Routledge 2016), sits on the Board of African Affairs, and is Treasurer of the IJURR Foundation.