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

Year: 2024

Type: book-review

Abstract: Tom Goodfellow's Politics and the Urban Frontier looks at how relations between states and urban populations shape the forms of urbanization in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda, with a particular focus on the capital cities of Addis Ababa, Kampala, and Kigali.The book's impressive analytical scope is grounded in the author's own extensive work on various dimensions of urban societies in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda, as well as in an unprecedented

Source: Urban Studies

DOI: 10.1177/00420980241255532

Authors: Côme Salvaire, Graeme Young, Tom Goodfellow

Institutions: Les Afriques dans le Monde, University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4399178789

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