Abdou maliq simone biography of abraham james

As an urbanist he has carried out research on African cities and more recently on South-east Asian cities. He combines his pan-African experience working with NGOs, municipal government and community upgrading projects together with research on urban culture, policy, international relations and critical theory. Simone's research points to the inadequacy of modernist discourses in understanding the contemporary realities of non-western cities.

His work focuses on the everyday experiences of people in sites and locations that are under-represented within academia, such as his book, For the City Yet to Come , which examined the social networks in Douala in Cameroon, Pikine, a large suburb of Dakar in Senegal, the African community in Jeddah, and Winterveld, a neighbourhood on the edge of Pretoria, South Africa.

Through combining urban planning with postcolonial literature and development studies, Simone shows how African cities should be seen as examples of everyday resistance against misplaced urban and development plans, rather than being understood as failed cities as has been the prevalent view amongst planners and governments.

Abdou maliq simone biography of abraham james: Based on research in Johannesburg, AbdouMaliq

His work reveals the potential of these cities and points to how their particular resources can be put to work for the development of urban planning policies and proposals. It means … taking the chances to move through the city, … to deal with walks of life that are unfamiliar to you, because within those kinds of unexpected or unanticipated chances, some new opportunity and possibility might ensue.

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