‘Cities without slums’? Global architectures of power and the African city

Gruffydd Jones, Branwen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-1621 2010. ‘Cities without slums’? Global architectures of power and the African city. Presented at: African Perspectives 2009 Congress, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 25-28 September 2009. Published in: Bakker, Karel ed. The African City Centre Re(sourced). Pretoria: University of Pretoria, pp. 57-68.

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Abstract

This paper provides a critical examination of the current international urban agenda for African cities, with a particular focus on the Cities Alliance discourse of ‘Cities Without Slums’ and UN-Habitat’ s ‘Slum Upgrading Facility’. Through this analysis a global architecture of financial and ideological power is brought into view. The paper first identifies the neoliberal ideological principles underpinning these internationally-promoted initiatives for ‘resourcing’ African cities. It then traces the location of this agenda within the broader global emergence neoliberal urbanism and financialisation. The final part of the paper considers the current agenda for African cities in light of earlier colonial urban discourse

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Publisher:	University of Pretoria
ISBN:	978-0-620-49356-7
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 14:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102206

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