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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Which urban alternative for Africa? |
Author: | Bugnicourt, Jacques |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Vierteljahresberichte Probleme der Entwicklungsländer |
Issue: | 79 |
Pages: | 29-40 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | urban society urbanization |
Abstract: | The fundamental fact that at present five to ten years are sufficient for the doubling of the area and population of most of the major African towns has not yet been sufficiently studied. It is difficult to perceive what the future of the large African cities will be. Taking as an assumption (with some restrictions) that history will continue on its own momentum and extrapolating the present trends of the urban economy an society, and after having rapidly recalled how, it seems, certain political of economic capitals of African countries operate, the author tries to bring out, for urban societies and economies, the main guidelines of an alternative: Present aspects of the functioning of the urban economy and society in Africa - Elements of an alternative for the large African towns - Dynamization of the transnational sub-system - Essential breaks - Transformation of the internal and external flows of the urban economy. Notes, graphs. |