The Suburban Frontier : Middle-Class Construction in Dar Es Salaam

African cities are under construction. Beyond the dazzling urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, the majority of urban residents are putting their cash, energy, and aspirations into finding land and building homes on city edges. In the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, the self-built suburban frontier has become the place where the middle classes are shaped. This book examines how investment in property-land, houses, and landscape-is central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Africa--

• | Author: Claire Mercer
• | Publisher: Univ of California Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 30, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520402383
• | ISBN-13: 9780520402386