Publication Cover
Social Dynamics
A journal of African studies
Volume 37, 2011 - Issue 1
552
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Symposium: African Urbanism I

Place resists: grounding African urban order in an age of global change

Pages 24-42 | Published online: 26 May 2011

References

  • Abdoul , M. 2005 . “ Urban development and urban informalities: Pikine, Senegal ” . In Urban Africa: changing contours of survival , Edited by: Simone , A. and Abouhani , A. 235 – 260 . Dakar : CODESRIA and Zed Books .
  • Achebe , C. 1958 . Things fall apart , London : Heinemann Education Publishers .
  • Amin , A. and Graham , S. 1997 . The ordinary city . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , 22 (4) : 411 – 29 .
  • Bakare‐Yusuf , B. and Weate , J. 2005 . “ Ojuelegba: the sacred profanities of a West African crossroad ” . In Urbanisation and African cultures , Edited by: Fayola , T. and Salm , S.J. 323 – 342 . Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press .
  • Becker , H.S. 2007 . Telling about society. , University of Chicago Press .
  • Berman , M. 1988 . All that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity , New York : Penguin Books .
  • Bhaba , H. 1994 . The location of culture , London : Routledge .
  • Bremner , L. 2002 . “ Closure, simulation and ‘making do’ in the contemporary Johannesburg landscape ” . In Under siege: four African cities , Edited by: Enwezor , O. 155 – 172 . Ostfildern‐Ruit : Hatje Cantz .
  • Bremner , L. 2004 . Johannesburg: one city, colliding worlds , Johannesburg : STE .
  • Buchli , V. 2002 . The material culture reader , Oxford : Berg .
  • Cain , A. 2001 . Humanitarian and development actors as peacebuilders? . Review of African Political Economy , 28 (90) : 577 – 86 .
  • Carl , P. 2000 . City‐image versus topography of praxis. . Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 10 (2) : 328 – 35 .
  • Carl , P. 2002 . What is at stake in planning a city? . Scroope , 14 : 30 – 33 .
  • Collier , P. 2007 . The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it , Oxford University Press .
  • Davis , M. 2006 . Planet of slums , New York and London : Verso .
  • De Boeck , P. and Plissart , M.F. 2006 . Kinshasa: tales of the invisible city , Brussels : Ludion .
  • De Certeau , M. 1984 . The practice of everyday life , Berkeley, CA : University of California Press .
  • Devey , R. , Skinner , C. and Valodia , I. 2006 . “ The state of the informal economy ” . In State of the nation 2005–2006 , Edited by: Buhlungu , S. 223 – 247 . Cape Town : HSRC .
  • DfID (Department for International Development, UK) . 2010 . Cities: the new frontier , London : UK Government, UKaid and DfID .
  • Frampton , K. 1983 . “ Towards a critical regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance ” . In The anti‐aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture , Edited by: Foster , H. 16 – 30 . Port Townsend, WA : Bay Press .
  • Fraser , C. 2002 . Shack chic: art and innovation in South African shack‐lands , Cape Town : Quivertree Publications .
  • Friedmann , J. 1986 . The world city hypothesis . Development and Change , 17 (1) : 69 – 83 .
  • Gadamer , H.G. 1975 . Truth and Method. , Second edition , Edited by: Weinsheimer , J. and Marshall , D.G. London : Sheed and Ward .
  • Gandy , M. 2005 . Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 29 (1) : 26 – 49 .
  • Graham , S. and Marvin , S. 2001 . Splintering urbanism: networked infrastructures, technological mobilities, and the urban condition , London and New York : Routledge .
  • Hall , S. 2009 . “ Visualising difference ” . In Researching the social and spatial life of the city , Edited by: Davis , J. 49 – 65 . London School of Economics .
  • Hamdi , N. 2004 . Small change: about the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities , London : Earthscan .
  • Hansen , K. and Vaa , M. 2004 . Reconsidering informality: perspectives from urban Africa , Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet .
  • Haraway , D. 1991 . Simians, cyborgs and women: the reinvention of nature , London : Free Association Books .
  • Hardoy , J. and Satterthwaite , D. 1989 . Squatter citizen: life in the urban third world , London : Earthscan .
  • Heidegger , M. 1971 . Poetry, language, thought , Edited by: Hofstadter , A. New York : Harper and Row .
  • Hentschel , C. and Press , K. 2009 . Merchants and mercenaries: thoughts on the African urbanism colloquium, Cape Town 2009 , Cape Town : African Centre for Cities .
  • Icon . 2010 . Africa Edited by: McGuirk , J. Special issue, June
  • Jacobs , J. 1961 . The death and life of great American cities , New York : Random House .
  • Jameson , F. 1984 . Postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism . New Left Review , 146 : 53 – 92 .
  • Kihato , C. 2008 . “ African urbanism ” . In The endless city , Edited by: Burdett , R. and Sudjic , D. 214 – 217 . London : Phaidon .
  • Kite , S. and Menin , S. 2005 . An architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson , London : Ashgate .
  • Koolhaas , R. 2000 . Mutations , Barcelona and Bordeaux : ACTAR .
  • Kuper , S. 2010 . “ Healing old wounds ” . In The future of cities, Financial Times 40 special report supplement, 07 April
  • Leach , N. 2003 . Belonging . AA Files , 49 : 76 – 82 .
  • Lehan , R. 1998 . The city in literature: an intellectual and cultural history , Berkeley, CA : University of California Press .
  • Lemanski , C. 2005 . Discourses of ‘improving’ a refugee‐influx area in post‐apartheid urban South Africa: improving the streets or removing unwelcome aliens? . Journal of International Development , 18 (6) : 787 – 802 .
  • Lloyd , R. 2003 . Defining spatial concepts toward an African urban system . Urban Design International , 8 (3) : 105 – 17 .
  • Lokko , L. Saffron Skies , New York : St Martin’s Press .
  • Löwith , K. 1949 . Meaning in history: the theological implications of the philosophy of history , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
  • Malinowski , B. 1938 . “ Anthropology of changing African culture ” . In Methods of study of culture contact in Africa , Edited by: Malinowski , B. London : International Institute of African Languages and Cultures .
  • Mau , B. and Leonard , J. , eds. 2004 . Massive Change , London : Phaidon Press .
  • Mbembe , A. and Nuttall , S. 2004 . Writing the world from an African metropolis . Public Culture , 16 (3) : 347 – 72 .
  • McCarter , R. 1987 . Escape from the revolving door . Pamphlet Architecture , 12 : 6 – 13 .
  • Mills , C.W. 1959 . The sociological imagination , Oxford University Press .
  • Neuwirth , R. 2005 . Shadow cities , New York and London : Routledge .
  • Nlandu , T. 2002 . “ Kinshasa: beyond chaos ” . In Under siege: four African cities , Edited by: Enwezor , O. 185 – 199 . Ostfildern‐Ruit : Hatje Cantz .
  • Otter , S. 2008 . Khayelitsha: uMlungu in a township , London : Penguin .
  • Perec , G. 1974 . Species of spaces and other pieces , London : Penguin .
  • Pile , S. and Keith , M. , eds. 1997 . Geographies of resistance , London : Routledge .
  • Rakodi , C. 2002 . “ Order and disorder in African cities ” . In Under siege: four African cities , Edited by: Enwezor , O. 45 – 80 . Ostfildern‐Ruit : Hatje Cantz .
  • Ricoeur , P. 1988 . Time and narrative , Edited by: Blamey , K. and Pellauer , D. Volume 3 , University of Chicago Press .
  • Robinson , J. 2006 . Ordinary cities: between modernity and development , London : Routledge .
  • Rogerson , C. 1997 . “ Globalisation or informalisation: urban African economies in the 1990s ” . In The urban challenge in African cities: growth and management of its large cities , Edited by: Rakodi , C. 337 – 370 . Tokyo : UN University Press .
  • Ross , F.C. 2004 . Sense‐scapes: senses and emotion in the making of place . Space of Anthropology Southern Africa , 27 (1/2) : 35 – 42 .
  • Rykwert , J. 2000 . The seduction of place , London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson .
  • Searle , G. 2010 . Welcome to Lagos Three‐part documentary. TV, BBC2, UK. April 15–29
  • Sherrington , M. 2006 . Everyday life: theories and practices from surrealism to the present , Oxford University Press .
  • Simone , A. 1998 . Urban processes and change in Africa , Dakar : CODESRIA .
  • Simone , A. 2001 . Africities: popular engagements of the urban in contemporary Africa . Space and Culture , 1 (7–9) [online]. Available from: http://www.carleton.ca/space/toc_1.7_8_9.html [Accessed 16 December 2010)
  • Simone , A. 2004 . People as infrastructure: intersecting fragments in Johannesburg . Public Culture , 16 (3) : 407 – 429 .
  • Simone , A. 2006 . Pirate towns: reworking social and symbolic infrastructures in Johannesburg and Douala . Urban Studies , 43 : 357 – 70 .
  • Soja , E. 2003 . “ Tales of a geographer‐planner ” . In Story and sustainability , Edited by: Eckstein , B. and Throgmorton , J.A. 207 – 224 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Spencer , J. 1997 . Post‐colonialism and the political imagination . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 3 (1) : 1 – 19 .
  • Throgmorton , J. 2005 . “ Planning as persuasive storytelling ” . In The network society , Edited by: Albrechts , L. and Mandelbaum , S.J. 125 – 145 . London and New York : Routledge .
  • Vesely , D. 2004 . Architecture in the age of divided representation , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Vestbro , D.U. , ed. 2002 . Architecture as politics: the role of design and planning for peace and sustainable development , Stockholm : ARCPEACE and Royal Institute of Technology .
  • Watson , V. 2002 . Change and continuity in spatial planning , London and New York : Routledge .
  • Watson , V. 2006 . Deep difference . Planning Theory , 5 (1) : 31 – 50 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.