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Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson

    (African Studies Centre, Oxford University)

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Too often the ambiguities of early European urbanization are overlooked and early modern city growth is portrayed as the embodiment of Western economic and political progress and a model for the developing world today. It is in this light that Western donors have viewed the combination of urban demographic growth with economic malaise in Sub-Saharan Africa as perverse and attributable to urban political elites’ misguided policies and practices. Sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanization trend, amidst the doldrums of the last quarter of a century, is indeed puzzling. This book seeks to disentangle and contextualize the tenuous character of urban African economic life over the last half of the 20th century.

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  • Deborah Fahy Bryceson, 2006. "Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 1, pages 3-38, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_1
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    1. Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Katherine V. Gough & Jonathan Rigg & Jytte Agergaard, 2009. "Critical Commentary. The World Development Report 2009," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(4), pages 723-738, April.
    2. Theodore Trefon, 2011. "Urban-Rural Straddling Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 27(3-4), pages 421-443, September.
    3. Agyemang, Ernest, 2017. "Mode choice for long distance trips: Evidence from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 150-157.

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