Living the Urban Periphery: Infrastructure, Everyday Life and Economic Change in African City-Regions

by Paula Meth

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152617121X
• ISBN13: 9781526171214
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"