UID:
almahu_9949863644902882
Format:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520402393
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer details how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa's middle classes are shaped. As the first book-length analysis of Africa's suburban middle class, The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.
Note:
Cover -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Exchange Rates -- A Note on Pseudonyms and Place Names -- Introduction -- 1. Groundwork -- 2. The Suburban Frontier -- 3. Land -- 4. Landscape -- 5. Domestic Architecture -- 6. Lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Swahili Words -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mercer, Claire The Suburban Frontier Berkeley : University of California Press,c2024 ISBN 9780520402386
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
