Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2011. The Urbanity of Movement: Dynamic Frontiers in Contemporary Africa. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31(4), pp. 379-391. ISSN 0739-456X [Article]

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The economies of Africa’s largest metropolitan regions reflect a contested intersection of orientations, practices, demands, values, and articulations to the larger world. While rural to urban migration may have substantially decreased, the circulation of populations within metropolitan regions, across primary and secondary cities, and along increasingly elaborated transnational circuits of movement and exchange raise important questions about conventional notions of population movement. As planning mechanisms tend to assume certain stability in the relationship of population to place, what kinds of understanding of movements may be necessary to engage the variegated ways that cities are articulated through these movements?

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X11416366
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Centre for Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) [2003-2015]
Dates:	Date Event 2011 Published
Item ID:	13843
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2015 11:00
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2016 17:18
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13843

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