For the City Yet to Come - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For the City Yet to Come write by AbdouMaliq Simone. This book was released on 2004-10-07. For the City Yet to Come available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 to capitalize on existing informal economies and structures in development efforts within Africa and to apply lessons drawn from them to rapidly growing urban areas around the world. Simone contends that Africa’s cities do work on some level and to the extent that they do, they function largely through fluid, makeshift collective actions running parallel to proliferating decentralized local authorities, small-scale enterprises, and community associations. Drawing on his nearly fifteen years of work in African cities—as an activist, teacher, development worker, researcher, and advisor to ngos and local governments—Simone provides a series of case studies illuminating the provisional networks through which most of Africa’s urban dwellers procure basic goods and services. He examines informal economies and social networks in Pikine, a large suburb of Dakar, Senegal; in Winterveld, a neighborhood on the edge of Pretoria, South Africa; in Douala, Cameroon; and among Africans seeking work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He contextualizes these particular cases through an analysis of the broad social, economic, and historical conditions that created present-day urban Africa. For the City Yet to Come is a powerful argument that any serious attempt to reinvent African urban centers must acknowledge the particular history of these cities and incorporate the local knowledge reflected in already existing informal urban economic and social systems.
The For the War Yet to Come
The For the War Yet to Come - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The For the War Yet to Come write by Hiba Bou Akar. This book was released on 2018-09-11. The For the War Yet to Come available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Through elegant ethnography and nuanced theorization . . . gives us a new way of thinking about violence, development, modernity, and ultimately, the city.” —Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. Neighborhoods reproduce poverty, displacement, and urban violence. For the War Yet to Come examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut’s southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighborhoods are arranged, not in the expectation of a bright future, but according to the logic of “the war yet to come”: urban planning plays on fears and differences, rumors of war, and paramilitary strategies to organize everyday life. As she shows, war in times of peace is not fought with tanks, artillery, and rifles, but involves a more mundane territorial contest for land and apartment sales, zoning and planning regulations, and infrastructure projects. Winner of the Anthony Leeds Prize “Upends our conventional notions of center and periphery, of local and transnational, even of war and peace.” —AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Fascinating, theoretically astute, and empirically rich.” —Asef Bayat, University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign “An important contribution.” —Christine Mady, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World
Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World write by L. U. Reavis. This book was released on 1871. Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Convention Record
Convention Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Convention Record write by Kentucky. Constitutional convention. This book was released on 1890. Convention Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ...
Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ... write by New York Chamber of Commerce. This book was released on 1909. Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
