TY - BOOK AU - Simone, Abdoumaliq, ed. TI - Urban Africa: changing contours of survival in the city SN - 9781842775929 U1 - 320 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Zed books KW - Sociology of environment Africa N1 - 1. Introduction: Urban Processes and Change - AbdouMaliq Simone Part I: Making Urban Politics 2. Urban Policies in Cairo: From Speeches on New Cities to the Adjustment Practices of Ordinary City Dwellers - Benedicte Florin 3. Feasts: Panoramas in Town: The Spaces and Times of the Moulids of Cairo - Anna Madoeuf 4. Kisangani: A city at its Lowest Ebb - Jean Omasombo 5. The City Centre: A Shifting Concept in the History of Addis Ababa - Bahru Zewde 6. At the Limits of Possibility: Working Notes on a Relational Model of Urban Politics - Edgar Pieterse Part 2: Urban Practices 7. Life in a High Density Urban Area: Anguwar Mai Gwado in Zaria - Mohammed-Bello Yunusa 8. Ethnicity and the Dynamics of City Politics: The Case of Jos - Victor A. O. Adetula 9. Urban Development and Urban Informalities: Pikine, Senegal - Mohamadou Abdoul 10. Formal and Decentralized Financing of Housing: Operation 200,000 Houses, Marrakesh - Mohamed Gheris ER -