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African Cities and Collaborative Futures This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability of African cities, as seen through local narratives of residents. Drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, the contributions offer a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. futuresafrican collaborative and cities At a time when the future of the region as a whole will be determined in large part by its cities, the implications of these developments are profound. With case studies from cities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, this volume explores how the rapid growth of African cities is african cities reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed. and How can we ‘see like a city’ in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision makers and international practitioners can collaborate to meet the challenge of rapid growth, keith souza / de santos (eds) environmental pressures and resource gaps. collaborative Michael Keith is Director of the PEAK Urban Programme and Professor at the Centre on Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos is Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme futures and Lecturer at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford Cover design: Daniel Benneworth-Gray Photo: Claire Forbes on Unsplash urban platforms and metropolitan logistics Downloaded from manchesterhive.com © Copyright protected it is illegal to copy or distribute this document ISBN 978-1-5261-5536-8 edited by michael keith and andreza aruska de souza santos www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk African Cities artwork.indd All Pages 09/02/2021 15:52 protected Copyright © document African cities and collaborative futures African citiesandcollaborative this distribute manchesterhive.com or from copy to illegal is Downloaded it protected Series Editors Michael Keith and Susan Parnell Copyright © Previously published Urban transformations and public health in document the emergent city Edited by Michael Keith and this Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos distribute manchesterhive.com or from copy to illegal is Downloaded it protected Copyright © document Andreza Aruskade SouzaSantos Andreza this collaborative futures collaborative Edited by MichaelKeithand Edited metropolitan logistics metropolitan African cities and African cities Urban platformsand Manchester University Press University Manchester distribute manchesterhive.com or from copy to illegal is Downloaded it Copyright © Manchester University Press 2021 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors. This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the editors, chapter authors and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Published by Manchester University Press protected Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © ISBN 978 1 5261 5536 8 hardback ISBN 978 1 5261 5535 1 open access document First published 2021 this The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. distribute manchesterhive.com or from copy to illegal is Downloaded it Cover design: Daniel Benneworth-Gray Photo: Claire Forbes on Unsplash Typeset by New Best-set Typesetters Ltd Contents protected Copyright © List of figures vii Series editors’ foreword viii document Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements and dedications xvi this 1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 1 distribute manchesterhive.com or 2 At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia – Paula Meth, Alison Todes, from Sarah Charlton, Tatenda Mukwedeya, Jennifer Houghton, copy Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu, Zhengli Huang, to Divine Mawuli Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi and Fikile Masikane 30 illegal 3 Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan is Downloaded it urban transformation – Mark Pelling, Alejandro Barcena, Hayley Leck, Ibidun Adelekan, David Dodman, Hamadou Issaka, Cassidy Johnson, Mtafu Manda, Blessing Mberu, Ezebunwa Nwokocha, Emmanuel Osuteye and Soumana Boubacar 53 4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa – Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia 73 vi Contents 5 Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa’s urban waste sector – Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes and Erik Swyngedouw 96 6 ‘Candles are not bright enough’: inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality – Federico Caprotti, Jon Phillips, Saska Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski, Stephen Essex, Jiska de Groot, Lucy Baker, Yachika Reddy and Peta Wolpe 121 7 Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam – Irmelin Joelsson 143 8 Conclusion: from an ‘infrastructural turn’ to the platform logics of logistics – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 166 Index 185 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com © Copyright protected it is illegal to copy or distribute this document Figures protected Copyright © 2.1 Molweni, eThekwini (Mark Lewis) 32 document 2.2 Tulu Dimtu, Addis Ababa (Mark Lewis) 33 2.3 Examples of multi-nodal cases: (a) Northern eThekwini this and (b) Yeka Abado (Adapted from (a) Wazimap and (b) Google Maps) 43 3.1 Blockages and opportunities for urban risk transitions (M. Pelling, H. Leck, L. Pasquini, I. Ajibade, E. Osuteye, distribute S. Parnell, S. Lwasa, C. Johnson, A. Fraser and A. Barcena manchesterhive.com or (2018). ‘Africa’s urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate’. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, from copy 31: 12) 55 to 4.1 Self-help housing in Namibia Stop 8 (ISULabaNtu project team) 80 4.2 Self-building in Piesang River (ISULabaNtu project team) 83 illegal is 4.3 Informal dwellings in Havelock settlement (ISULabaNtu Downloaded it project team) 86 Series editors’ foreword This book series addresses the causes, dynamics and understandings of global urban transformation in the twenty-first century. We live in an era when numerically the greatest number of people moving to cities are in the parts of the globe normally characterised as the global south. It is also the case that in recent years much of the protected most interesting, innovative and insightful work around contemporary urbanisms has addressed the global condition through a disposition that speaks internationally both from and to this new cartography. We have put together this series with Manchester University Press to reflect and capture these trends and realities and look for new voices that might articulate and Copyright curate these new realities through fresh lenses. © We look to publish work that is: document International, working within a global frame of reference, where cases are generative of larger transnational processes. The series aims to move urban studies to a focus this that transcends a traditional separation of literatures of the global south and global north. Interdisciplinary, originating mostly but not entirely from within the social sciences. The orientation of the series seeks work that rethinks interdisciplinarity in an urban context, drawing on insights from natural sciences and humanities as well as the social distribute sciences. manchesterhive.com or Informed by the past but future oriented, addressing the challenges of the emergent cities of the twenty-first century. This perspective values the particularities of history and geography; the path dependencies of urban change; and the realities of spatial from copy variation. It recognises the predictive value of new methods of data collection and to technological change but considers that such a ‘future’ city orientation moves beyond extrapolation from trend to a more multidimensional sensibility. 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