Böcker av Garth Andrew Myers

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.

Based on fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides an analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). Focusing on the SCP's policies for solid waste management, it examines the success of these schemes and the SCP's record in building relationships between people and government.

This groundbreaking book shows how as African societies become increasingly urban they challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development.

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. It covers colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities