Disposable Cities : Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Foreign Words -- 1 Toward a Political Ecology of African Cities -- Introduction -- African Cities -- Neoliberalism -- Sustainable Development -- Good Governance -- The Politics of Cultural Difference -- Political Ecology and Urban Africa -- Conclusion -- 2 The Sustainable Cities Program and African Cities -- Introduction -- The SCP Map of Operations -- Tanzanian and Zambian Cases -- The United Nations and African Urban Development -- Top-down Donor-driven Bottom-up Localized Development -- The Exclusive City -- Conclusion -- 3 Dar es Salaam: Model City for the World -- Introduction -- Dar es Salaam -- The Sustainable Dar es Salaam Program -- Neoliberalism in Dar es Salaam -- Sustainable Development in Dar es Salaam -- Good Governance in Dar es Salaam -- The Politics of Cultural Difference in Dar es Salaam -- Conclusion -- 4 The Mirror that Zanzibar Holds up for the World -- Introduction -- It all Comes Together in Zanzibar -- The Zanzibar Sustainable Program -- Neoliberalism in Zanzibar -- Sustainable Development in Zanzibar -- Good Governance in Zanzibar -- The Politics of Cultural Difference in Zanzibar -- Conclusion -- 5 Lusaka: The Years of the Rule of Money -- Introduction -- Lusaka -- The Sustainable Lusaka Program -- Neoliberalism in Lusaka -- Sustainable Development in Lusaka -- Good Governance in Lusaka -- The Politics of Cultural Difference in Lusaka -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism or ubinafsishaji: The Years of the Rule of Money and Garbage -- Beyond Sustainability Rhetoric: Environment and Development in Urban Africa -- ''New Geographies of Governmentality'' in African Cities?.

''New Culture'' and the Politics of Cultural Difference -- (Post)Script: Postcolonial Geography and Urban Policy -- Bibliography -- Index.

Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). It also puts forward a historically grounded critique of neoliberalism, good governance and sustainable development discourses.

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