Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

by Tom Goodfellow

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socioeconomic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to foster economic development and social justice. In this book, Tom Goodfellow argues that these differences are primarily rooted in politics, and if we continue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198916388
• ISBN13: 9780198916383
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages