City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads

By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, the book opens up new ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities from now on.

Author: Abdoumaliq Simone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780415993227

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 146

About the Author

AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1977 he has had many jobs in different cities across African and Southeast Asia, in the fields of education, housing, social welfare, urban development, and local government. His best known publications are In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan, and For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities.