The Suburban Frontier

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The Suburban Frontier is written by Claire Mercer and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520402383 (ISBN 10) and 9780520402386 (ISBN 13).

"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"--