For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities

by AbdouMaliq Simone

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure. In For the City Yet to Come, AbdouMaliq Simone argues that by overlooking all that does work in Africa's cities, this perspective forecloses opportunities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334453
• ISBN13: 9780822334453
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"