Under siege, four African cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos : Documenta 11, Platform 4 /
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Ostfildern-Ruit : New York :
Hatje Cantz ; Distribution in the USA D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers,
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Table of Contents:
- The visible and invisible : remaking cities in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone
- Order and disorder in African cities : governance, politics, and urban land development processes / Carole Rakodi
- Between euphemism and informalism : inventing the city / Antoine Bouillon
- Figures of the subject in times of crisis / Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman
- Popular shaping of metropolitan forms and processes in Nigeria : glimpses and interpretations from an informed Lagosian / Babatunde A. Ahonsi
- Closure, simulation, and "making do" in the contemporary Johannesburg landscape / Lindsay J. Bremner
- Fragments of a lecture on Lagos / Rem Koolhaas
- Kinshasa : beyond chaos / Thierry Nlandu
- Space, culture, and agency in contemporary Freetown : the making and remaking of a postcolonial city / Ibrahim Abdullah
- "There's space for Africa in the new South Africa " : African migrants and urban governance in Johannesburg / Maxine Reitzes
- Regenerating downtown Lagos / Koku Konu
- Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" and the second world / Filip De Boeck with photographs by Marie-Françoise Plissart
- Freetown : from the "Athens of West Africa" to a city under siege : the rise and fall of sub-Saharan first municipality / Alfred B. Zack-Williams
- Writing the anxious city : images of Lagos in Nigerian home video films / Onookome Okome
- The production of the city and urban informalities : the borough of Thiaroye-sur-mer in the city of Pikine, Senegal / Mohamadou Abdoul
- Welfare associations and the dynamics of city politics in Nigeria : Jos metropolis as case study / Victor A.O. Adetula
- Housing in Marrakech : the contradictions of public interventions / Mohammed Gheris
- Kisangani and the curve of destiny / Jean Omasombo Tshonda
- Environment and inhabitants of an unplanned area of Zaria, Nigeria / Mohammed-Bello Yunusa
- The city center : a shifting concept in the history of Addis Ababa / Bahru Zewde