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Networked City Life in Africa: Introduction

Authors: Ilda Lindell, Mats Utas

Published in: Urban Forum | Issue 4/2012

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Informality is pervasive in many cities in Africa and beyond. It has become “an organizing urban logic” (Roy and Alsayyad 2004). Informal modes of urban living require that urbanites develop forms of social organization in order to deal with most aspects of urban life. What appears to outsiders as chaotic informal urban activity is usually structured by webs of relationships that lend life in highly uncertain urban settings a degree of predictability. …

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Herein, the term “networks” is used in a broad sense, to encompass more and less structured forms of social collaboration.

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Title: Networked City Life in Africa: Introduction
Authors: Ilda Lindell
Mats Utas
Publication date: 01-12-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Urban Forum / Issue 4/2012
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-012-9180-y

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