Mercer, Claire 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0991-3693
(2024)
The suburban frontier: middle-class construction in Dar es Salaam.
University of California Press.
ISBN 9780520402386
Abstract
African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, the majority of urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on the city edges. As the first book-length analysis of Africa’s suburban middle-class, The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original qualitative and ethnographic field research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer writes a detailed exposition of how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped. This book offers a new lens on the African middle classes, making significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520402386/the-sub... |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2024 16:09 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2025 19:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122631 |
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