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Andrew Hake. African Metropolis: Nairobi's Self-Help City. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 284 pp. Bibliography, index, maps, plates. $18.95 - Richard E. Stren. Housing the Urban Poor in Africa: Policy, Politics and Bureaucracy in Mombasa. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, Research Series, No. 34, 1978. 330 pp. $5.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Marc Howard Ross
Marc Howard Ross*
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Department of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College
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Urban Communities
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ASA Review of Books , Volume 5 , 1979 , pp. 100 - 103
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979

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1 The I.L.O. Report, Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya. Geneva: International Labor Office, 1972. Janet Bujra. “Pumwani: The Politics of Property. A Study of An Urban Renewal Scheme in Nairobi, Kenya. A Report on a Research Project Sponsored by the SSRC Mimeo.

Kenneth McVicar. “Pumwani: Twilight of an African Slum. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, 1968. Thomas S. Weisnerx. “One Family, Two Households: Rural-Urban Ties in Kenya.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1973. Ross, Marc Howard. The Political Integration of Urban Squatters. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973.Google Scholar Ross, Marc Howard, “Conflict Resolution Among Urban Squatters,” Urban Anthropology, 3 (Spring 1974), 110–136.Google Scholar Parkin, David, “Migration, Settlement and the Politics of Unemployment: A Nairobi Case Study,” In Parkin, David (ed.), Town and Country in East Africa. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.Google Scholar David Etherton (ed.), Mathare Valley: A Case-Study of Uncontrolled Settlement in Nairobi. Housing Research and Development Unit, University of Nairobi, 1971. Nici Nelson, “Some Aspects of Informal Social Organization of Female Migrants in a Nairobi Squatter Neighborhood: Mathare Valley.” Pages I-III. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1975. Mimeo.

2 Turner, John. Housing by People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments. New York: Pantheon, 1977 Google Scholar; Turner, John F. C. and Fichter, Robert. Freedom to Build: Dweller Control of the Housing Process. New York: Macmillan, 1972 Google Scholar.

3 Southall, Aidan, “Introductory Summary,” In Southall, Aidan (ed.), Social Change in Modern Africa. London: Oxford University Press, 1960 Google Scholar.