Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 09 Dec 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781137380166
About P. Jenkins
Paul Jenkins is an architect planner and social researcher who has worked during most of the past 40 years on a wide range of aspects in the built environment: architecture construction housing planning and urban studies. Until recently he was Professor of Architecture Research at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture The University of Edinburgh UK and concurrently Professor of Architecture and Human Settlements in the School of the Built Environment Heriot-Watt University UK as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo Brazil. He is now Head of the School of Architecture & Planning at the University of Witwatersrand South Africa and continues as Visiting Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University Mozambique.