Therborn Editors (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover without dust jacket. Book in very good condition with slight creasing to back bottom corner. Pages clean and unmarked with colorful photographs and maps to beginning of book. This book focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive population growth and in most cases stunted economic development. Starting at the point of national political emancipation, each case study explores the complicated processes of nation-state building through its manifestation in the 'urban geology' of the city its architecture, iconography, layout and political use of urban space. Although the evolution of each of these cities is different, they share a critical demographic feature: an extraordinarily rapid process of urbanization that is more politically than economically driven. Overwhelmed by the inevitable challenges resulting from this urban sprawl, the governments seated in most of these capital cities are in effect both powerful wielding power over their populace and powerless, lacking power to implement their plans and to provide for their inhabitants.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 354 pp, is light blue design with black lettering on front and spine - no imperfections (see photos). Maps and charts. No underlining, highlighting or notations. Prompt shipping includes tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 354 pp Cover is black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. No notations, underlining or highlighting. Numerous charts and graphs throughout. Prompt shipping includes tracking.

Softcover. Octavo, xxxi, 685 pages. In Very Good condition. Ex-library with usual markings, including library stamps to edges and title page, label inside rear cover. Spine is red with white print. Cover is red and blue with white print. Illustrated: b&w graphs, tables, charts, maps. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column G (ND-G). 1378360. FP New Rockville Stock.…