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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Constance SmithPublisher: James Currey Imprint: James Currey Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781847012333ISBN 10: 1847012337 Pages: 221 Publication Date: 18 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAlthough an academic text, this book will be informative for a wider audience including planners, consultants and policymakers. It should serve as essential reading for those undertaking planning in cities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and as a primer for understanding the complex realities that shape urban areas. LSE REVIEW OF BOOKS Although an academic text, this book will be informative for a wider audience including planners, consultants and policymakers. It should serve as essential reading for those undertaking planning in cities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and as a primer for understanding the complex realities that shape urban areas. * LSE REVIEW OF BOOKS * Researchers interested in understanding urban development from an ethnographic lens will find inspiration in the different perspectives of this book as it illustrates the plea of inclusivity by the residents yearning to co-own national visions together with its bearer rather than being simply by-standers/on-lookers. In addition, the book is resourceful in understanding Nairobi from a residential historical perspective and how this history is embedded in the present urban architecture. The use of photography provides a clearer understanding to the reader of the character of the neighbourhood and the different concepts presented in the book. * H-Soz-Kult * This delicious ethnography, full of familiar actions, turns of phrase, habits, and logics, pays close attention to minute details that repeat and accumulate and build mass, bumping up against the present in important ways. In the process, Smith forces us to reexamine some temporal concepts such as decay, memory, and disintegration to understand their generative qualities. For Smith, decay is not loss but rather accumulation or excess-excess that accumulates to make the fabric of the city, a felted fabric densely matted and entangled, held together through friction. * African Studies Review * Smith has done empathetic and adventurous fieldwork. * H-AFRICA * Author InformationConstance Smith is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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