The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities Book

	List of tables and figures
	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Globalization and Africa: The challenge of urban growth
2	Global forces, urban change, and urban management in Africa	17
3	Urbanization, globalization, and economic crisis in Africa	74
Pt. II	The "mega-cities" of africa
4	The challenge of urban growth in Cairo	111
5	Johannesburg: A city and metropolitan area in transformation	150
6	The challenges of growth and development in metropolitan Lagos	192
7	Kinshasa: A reprieved mega-city?	223
8	Abidjan: From the public making of a modern city to urban management of a metropolis	252
9	Nairobi: National capital and regional hub	292
Pt. III	The dynamics of city development
10	Globalization or informalization? African urban economies in the 1990s	337
11	Residential property markets in African cities	371
12	The state and civil society: Politics, government, and social organization in African cities	411
13	Urban lives: Adopting new strategies and adapting rural links	447
Pt. IV	Rising to the challenge
14	Towards appropriate urban development policy in emerging mega-cities in Africa	497
15	Urban management: The recent experience	527
16	Conclusion	553
	Contributors	595
	Index	597