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  1. Jul 7, 2020 · Language. English. xxxii, 484 pages : 25 cm. The objective of this reference book is to present the different aspects and features of urbanization in Africa, both historical and contemporary. This reference work traces urban developments in Africa from their beginning in ancient Egypt through the medieval and early modern periods and contrasts ...

  2. Jun 20, 1994 · The first part provides a historical overview of urbanization in Africa from ancient civilizations to the present day. The second part provides detailed studies of urbanization in fifteen highly urbanized African countries. Each chapter in this section is devoted to one country, and the chapters are arranged alphabetically for convenient access.

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  4. Such an approach could certainly encompass history, geography, demographics, economics, political science, architecture and town planning, as well as anthropology and sociology. The interdisciplinary study of urbanization deserves emphasis because the research conducted in these different directions over the course of the past twenty-five years ...

    • Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
    • 1991
  5. Meier zu Selhausen, Felix (2022). “Growing Cities: Urbanization in Africa”, In Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds.), The History of African Development: An Online Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers. African Economic History Network E-book.

  6. Urban History 1950s and early 1960s, the urban history of Africa was left on the back burner.8 The multi-functionality of the urban space in pre-colonial Africa in general and in Ethiopia in particular had lent to the notion that Africa had not experienced urbanization.9 To contemporary Europeans, pre-colonial

  7. Jun 20, 1994 · James D. Tarver. Bloomsbury Academic, Jun 20, 1994 - Education - 536 pages. This reference work provides a summary of historical and contemporary aspects of urbanization in Africa. The volume is organized in three parts. The first part provides a historical overview of urbanization in Africa from ancient civilizations to the present day.

  8. Books. Globalization and Urbanization in Africa. Toyin Falola, Steven J. Salm. Africa World Press, 2004 - History - 294 pages. In this book scholars present new interpretations of African cities, from the pre-colonial to the modern, set in the context of national and international economy, politics and culture.

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