Foreword IX
Preface X
List of Illustrations XI
Acronyms and Abbreviations XIII
Notes on Contributors XV
Part 1
Introduction
1
African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone 3
Till Förster and Carole Ammann
2
The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces 26
Edgar Pieterse
Part 2
Urban Governance
3
Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview 55
Warren Smit
4
Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda 78
Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin
5
Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? The Difficult Reframing of State Mandate and Practices in the Post-Apartheid Era 101
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
6
Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? 139
Ton Dietz
7
Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia 162
Lalli Metsola
8
Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation Addressing Contextual and Spatial Indifference in Design, Urban Planning and International Cooperation: A Case Study from Addis Ababa 188
Sascha Delz
9
Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? 213
Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu
Part 4
The Rural-Urban Continuum
10
The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation 231
Garth Myers
11
Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men’s Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) 254
Sebastian Prothmann
12
The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi 275
Florian Stoll
13
Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo 302
Karen Büscher
Index 325