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Urban Fortunes and Skeleton Cityscapes: Real Estate and Late Urbanization in Kigali and Addis Ababa
In many parts of Africa, societies that remain primarily rural are experiencing accelerated urban growth and highly visible booms in property development. In the absence of significant industrialization, investment is pouring directly into what Lefebvre and Harvey characterized as the ‘secondary circuit’...
Transport Infrastructure and Logistics in the Making of Dubai Inc.
This article interrogates the political economy of Dubai's Jebel Ali Port, ranked among the top ten container ports internationally by traffic, and its operating conglomerate, Dubai Ports World (DP World). The article aims to situate trade infrastructure in the production of Dubai's economic geography as a sea–air...
Global Urban Policymaking in Africa: A View from Angola Through the Redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda
A burgeoning literature looks into the processes and actors involved in the adoption and emulation of best practices and models of urban policy and development across the globe, often with the aim of attracting investment and making cities more competitive. With its focus on leisure, tourism and global capital, the...
MARCH ISSUE
Detail from an image of the Rio operations centre, COR, which brings the city’s 30 departments and private suppliers into a single control room (photo by David Levene © Guardian News & Media Ltd, 2018)
Detail from an image of the Bay of Luanda, featuring dwellings on the fringes of the redevelopment (photo © Ngoi Salucombo, 2015)
‘Spaghetti Pipes’, detail from an image of water supply infrastructure in Mumbai (photo © Lisa Björkman, March 2009)