The city in modern Africa ; [papers] / edited by Horace Miner.

Author/creator Conference on Methods and Objectives of Urban Research in Africa
Other author Miner, Horace (Horace Mitchell), 1912-1993, editor.
Other author Joint Committee on African Studies.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Praeger, [1967]
Descriptionxi, 364 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Praeger library of African affairs
Sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council
Praeger library of African affairs. ^A356655
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.--List of works cited (p. 337-353)
LCCN 67029714

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Joyner General Stacks HT148.A2 C6 1967 ✔ Available Place Hold