Politics and the Urban Frontier - Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
Politics and the Urban Frontier - Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
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政治与城市前沿——东非城市化晚期的转型与分歧
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10.1093/oso/9780198853107.001.0001
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2022
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尽管全球技术官僚的城市建设理念正在兴起，但世界各地的城市并没有融合成彼此难以区分的复制品。事实上，随着世界城市化进程的推进，城市形态在社会经济和空间特征上仍然多样化，促进经济发展和社会正义的潜力也各不相同。本书认为，这些差异主要源于政治，如果我们继续将城市视为需要管理的经济和技术项目，而不是政治讨价还价和争论的场所，那么对更美好城市未来的追求注定要失败。城市发展的主流批判方法倾向于通过参考新自由主义监管机构的多样化影响来解释差异。然而，这忽略了资本积累和分配的更广泛政治驱动不同城市地区不同形式转型的多种方式。为了揭示影响城市发展差异的政治因素，本书将重点放在东非作为全球城市前沿：世界上城市化程度最低但城市化速度最快的地区。通过对三个案例研究国家（埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达和乌干达）长达十年的研究，《政治与城市前沿》首次对东非城市发展轨迹及其背后的政治动态进行了持续、完整的比较分析。通过对基础设施投资、城市房地产景观、街头贸易经济和城市政治抗议的关注，它为在世界上最具活力的城市变化坩埚中展开的城市转型提供了一个多尺度、历史基础和跨学科的分析。
Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socio-economic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to foster economic development and social justice. This book argues that these differences are primarily rooted in politics, and if we continue to view cities as economic and technological projects to be managed rather than terrains of political bargaining and contestation, the quest for better urban futures is doomed to fail. Dominant critical approaches to urban development tend to explain difference with reference to the variegated impacts of neoliberal regulatory institutions. This, however, neglects the multiple ways in which the wider politics of capital accumulation and distribution drive divergent forms of transformation in different urban places. In order to unpack the politics that shapes differential urban development, this book focuses on East Africa as the global urban frontier: the least urbanized but fastest urbanizing region in the world. Drawing on a decade of research spanning three case-study countries (Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda), Politics and the Urban Frontier provides the first sustained, book-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics underpinning them. Through a focus on infrastructure investment, urban propertyscapes, street-level trading economies, and urban political protest, it offers a multi-scalar, historically grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world’s most dynamic crucible of urban change.