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Inhabiting Dissonant Times
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is ...
Movements at the Crossroads
By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, the book opens up new ways for understanding what it is...
Urban Life within and beyond Capture
In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the interse...
Changing African Life in Four Cities
Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa’s burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, un...
Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment
The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These transitions occur in regions where the majority of in...
Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise reside...
Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South
The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. B...
The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies. Cities in Africa are the sites of...