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Living the Urban Periphery - Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow, Alison Todes

Living the Urban Periphery

Infrastructure, Everyday Life and Economic Change in African City-Regions
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-9832-7 (ISBN)
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An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on the ground through residents’ voices and narratives. -- .
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them and how these are lived. This co-authored monograph draws on findings from an extensive comparative study on Ethiopia and South Africa, in conversation with a related study on Ghana. It examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the experiences of living in these changing contexts, alongside the logics driving their transformation. Through its conceptualisation and application of five ‘logics of periphery’, it offers unique, contextually-informed insights into the generic processes shaping urban peripheries, and the variable ways in which these are playing out in contemporary Africa for those living the peripheries.

This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence, thanks to the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). -- .

Paula Meth is Reader in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, and Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Sarah Charlton is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Witwatersrand. Tom Goodfellow is Professor of Urban Studies & International Development at the University of Sheffield. Alison Todes is Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Witwatersrand. Additional contributions from: Sibongile Buthelezi, School of Built Environment & Development Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal. Metadel Sileshi Belihu, PhD Candidate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany. Yohana Eyob, Architect and Urban Planner, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr Jennifer Houghton, Senior Lecturer, Department of Town and Regional Planning, Durban University of Technology Dr Divine Mawuli Asafo, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Hull. Dr Tatenda Mukwedeya, Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand Dr Zhengli Huang, Researcher, School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield Dr Meseret Kassahun Desta, Independent Researcher, Nairobi, Kenya -- .

Introduction - Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow and Alison Todes

1: Visions of the Urban Periphery: Ethiopia and South Africa - Alison Todes and Tom Goodfellow
2. Investment and Economic Change on the Urban Periphery - Alison Todes, Sarah Charlton and Tom Goodfellow
3: Jobs and livelihoods: accessing work within and beyond the periphery - Alison Todes, Tom Goodfellow and Jen Houghton
4: Governing the urban peripheries - Tom Goodfellow, Yohana Eyob, Paula Meth, Tatenda Mukwedeya and Alison Todes.
5: Housing in Addis Ababa: policy, programmes and lived experience - Zhengli Huang, Tom Goodfellow and Meseret Kassahun Desta
6: Housing, history and hope in South Africa’s urban peripheries - Sarah Charlton, Alison Todes and Paula Meth
7: Peri-urban transformations: Changing land market and the issue of (in)security in peri-urban Accra, Ghana - Divine M. Asafo
8: Transport and mobility (in South Africa and Addis Ababa) - Tom Goodfellow, Paula Meth and Sarah Charlton
9: Producing Places: services, infrastructure and the public realm in South Africa and Addis Ababa - Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton and Alison Todes
10: Social differentiation, boredom and crime within the peripheries - Paula Meth, Metadel Sileshi Belihu and Sibongile Buthelezi
11: Supermarkets, retail and consumption in peripheral areas - Sarah Charlton and Meseret Kassahun Desta

Conclusions - Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow and Alison Todes -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.6.2026
Reihe/Serie Global Urban Transformations
Zusatzinfo 40 b&w illustrations, including 6 maps & 3 tables. [COLOUR FOR EBOOKS.]
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-5261-9832-0 / 1526198320
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-9832-7 / 9781526198327
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