Urban Geography in South Africa - 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 Urban Geography in South Africa write by Ruth Massey. This book was released on 2019-08-17. Urban Geography in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book embraces South Africa and its place in the Global South, providing a succinct theoretical and empirical analysis and discussion of urban issues in the country. There have been sporadic calls from the Urban Geography community for the development of an overarching and comprehensive text that explores contemporary processes and practices taking place in urban South Africa and, more widely, the Global South. This is an edited collection of chapters by leading urban theorists and practitioners working on various themes within urban South Africa and serves as a base for scholars and students interested in urban perspectives from countries in the Global South.
Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe - 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 Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe write by Inocent Moyo. This book was released on 2021-01-09. Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African cities and towns. It adopts a political economy approach to analyse the evolution of informality in cities and its implications for urban planning. It brings to bear how the South African and Zimbabwean historical and/or ideological and contemporary political and economic trajectories have impacted on the ever changing nature of urban informality, both spatially and structurally and/or compositionally; thus resulting in unique urban materialities, which are aspects that have scarcely been studied or discussed in the extant literature. This book, therefore, seeks to close the academic gap by dealing with the dearth of literature on spatial (re)locational discourses of urban informality. The work positions urban informality as a resilient force with potency in terms of political mobilisation and (re) shaping urban spaces. Though these are fundamental issues, they have received comparatively little attention, especially in literature that focuses on the Southern African region. Accordingly, undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as academics in the fields of Urban Geography, Political Science, Development Studies, Sociology, Town and Regional Planning among others, will find the range of topics and depth of coverage in this book particularly valuable. Similarly, practitioners and activists on issues of urban informality and urban governance will find the book very useful.
The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa - 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 Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa write by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah. This book was released on 2019-01-29. The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a comprehensive look at several cases of climate change adaptation responses across various sectors and geographical areas in urban Africa and places them within a solid theoretical context. Each chapter is a state-of-the-art overview of a significant topic on climate change adaptation in urban Africa and is written by a leading expert in the field. In addition to the focus on the geography of urban adaptation to climate change in Africa, this collection offers a broader perspective by blending the use of case studies and theory based research. It examines transformations in climate change adaptation and its future orientation from the perspectives of urban planners, political economists, environmentalists, ecologists, economists and geographers, thereby addressing the challenges facing African cities adaptation responses from all angles. Providing up-to-date and authoritative contributions covering the key aspects of climate change adaptation in urban Africa, this book will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students of geography, urban development and management, environmental science and policy, disaster management, as well as those in the field of urban planning.
Urban Inclusivity in Southern Africa
Urban Inclusivity in Southern Africa - 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 Urban Inclusivity in Southern Africa write by Hangwelani H. Magidimisha-Chipungu. This book was released on 2021-09-28. Urban Inclusivity in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book’s point of departure rests on the premises that dimensions of the mainstream inclusive city discourse fail to capture in detail vulnerable clusters of society (being women, children, and the aging), the minority clusters (i.e., the blind, the disabled), and migrants. In addition, it fails to recognize the increase of spatial inequality driven by racial and class differences—a factor that has seen an increase in community violence and protests. The focus on spatial inequality has, for a long time, blind-folded urban authorities to ignore exclusion arising out of the same environments created with a notion of creating inclusivity. Hence this book “collapses spatial walls” as it seeks to uncover the true perspectives of inclusivity in cities beyond spatial dimensions but within social realms. The depth of this book’s enquiry rests on its critical investigation of Southern African cities’ through historical epochs of apartheid and colonialism in the region.
The Geography of South Africa
The Geography of South Africa - 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 Geography of South Africa write by Jasper Knight. This book was released on 2018-10-03. The Geography of South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South.
