Rural Settlement Structure and African Development

ISBN-13: 9780367301859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str.

Marilyn Silberfein

Opis

This book focuses on rural development in Africa and the connection between development process and the arrangement of people and their built environment in rural space. It discusses that settlement systems are connected to various aspects of survival in a subsistence and a commercializing economy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART ONE Background to the Study of Settlement -- 1 Introduction / Marilyn Silberfein -- 2 The Geographical Study of Rural Settlements / David Grossman and David Siddle -- PART TWO The Historical Perspective -- 3 The Origins of African Rural Settlement / James L. Newman -- 4 Cyclical Change in African Settlement and Modem Resettle-ment Programs / Marilyn Silberfein -- PART THREE The Evolution of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies -- 5 Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar / Glenn Davis Stone -- 6 The Role of Villages and Ecological Constraints in Botswana / R.M.K. Silitshena -- 7 Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in the Sahel: The Case of Northern Yatenga / Burkina Paso, Robert E. Ford -- 8 Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in Humid Tropical Rwanda / Robert E. Ford -- PART FOUR Rural Development Programs: The Role of Settlement Structure -- 9 Participatory Development and Settlement in Southern Africa / Edward C. Green and Raymond T. Isely -- 10 The Design of Community and Its Socioecological Consequences: Marsabit District / Kenya, Asmarom Legesse -- PART FIVE National Settlement Strategies -- 11 Rural Settlement Patterns in Zimbabwe and State Manipula-tion of the Settlement Structure / Lovemore Zinyama -- 12 The Political Economy of Spatial Rationalization and Integration Policies in Tanzania / Richard J. Massaro -- PART SIX Conclusions and Implications for the Future -- 13 The Rural-Urban Nexus, Marilyn Silberfein -- About the Contributors -- Index.

O autorze

Marilyn Silberfein