The city in modern Africa / edited by Horace Miner.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Conference on Methods and Objectives of Urban Research in Africa Airlie House, Joint Committee on African Studies
Other Authors: Miner, Horace (Horace Mitchell), 1912-1993
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Praeger, [1967]
Series:Praeger library of African affairs.
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Table of Contents:
  • The city and modernisation: an introduction / by H. Miner
  • Comparative analysis of processes of modernisation / by D. Lerner
  • Motives and methods: reflections on a study in Lagos / by P. Marris
  • Africa and the theory of optimum city size / by J.J. Spengler
  • Urbanisation and economic growth: the cases of two white settler territories / by W.J. Barber
  • Structural discontinuities in African towns: some aspects of racial pluralism / by L. Kuper
  • The political structure of urban-centered African communities / by W.J. Hanna and J.L. Hanna
  • Bureaucracy and urban symbol systems / by L. Tiger
  • Father-child relationships and changing life-styles in Ibadan, Nigeria / by R.A. Levine, N.H. Klein and C.R. Owen
  • Environmental change, types of descent, and child rearing practices / by R. Clignet
  • Kampala-Mengo / by A. Southall.