Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. It concentrates on analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens
How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, con...
The thesis deals with a series of public housing estates planned between 1910 and 1980 in the sub-Sa...
As a result of apartheid’s history, the current South African government was initially faced with tw...
African housing is really a moral problem. What you do about it depends on your sense of values. And...
This book examines the African home as a key site of struggle in the making of modern KwaZulu-Natal,...
Researchers have generally assumed that housing policies of the colonial and the immediate post‐col...
This qualitative ethnographic study presents how intergenerational relationships have shaped the arc...
This special issue focuses on state housing in Africa as a space of living. This topic is prompted b...
The Development Syndrome: post-war housing and racial segregation in Africa When questioned in 1948 ...
Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between...
The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political econom...
In contemporary public debates regarding the significance of social mobility, new cultures of consum...
Housing in South Africa is a serious political issue around which communities have rallied continuou...
While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on repr...
Housing finance; Slum upgrading; Africa; Construction; Political economy; Land tenure; Housing...
How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, con...
The thesis deals with a series of public housing estates planned between 1910 and 1980 in the sub-Sa...
As a result of apartheid’s history, the current South African government was initially faced with tw...
African housing is really a moral problem. What you do about it depends on your sense of values. And...
This book examines the African home as a key site of struggle in the making of modern KwaZulu-Natal,...
Researchers have generally assumed that housing policies of the colonial and the immediate post‐col...
This qualitative ethnographic study presents how intergenerational relationships have shaped the arc...
This special issue focuses on state housing in Africa as a space of living. This topic is prompted b...
The Development Syndrome: post-war housing and racial segregation in Africa When questioned in 1948 ...
Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between...
The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political econom...
In contemporary public debates regarding the significance of social mobility, new cultures of consum...
Housing in South Africa is a serious political issue around which communities have rallied continuou...
While urban divisions are commonly emphasized in urban studies, there has been less emphasis on repr...
Housing finance; Slum upgrading; Africa; Construction; Political economy; Land tenure; Housing...
How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, con...
The thesis deals with a series of public housing estates planned between 1910 and 1980 in the sub-Sa...
As a result of apartheid’s history, the current South African government was initially faced with tw...
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