352 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume is the result of a group of researchers applying their insights and experience to a common theme. All the authors are con-cerned with rural development in Africa and all have focused on the con-nection between the development process and the arrangement of people and their built environment in rural space. Both anthropologists and geo-graphers have contributed to the dialogue on this... Read more
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART ONE Background to the Study of Settlement -- 1 Introduction / Marilyn Silberfein -- 2 The Geographical Study of Rural Settlements / David Grossman and David Siddle -- PART TWO The Historical Perspective -- 3 The Origins of African Rural Settlement / James L. Newman -- 4 Cyclical Change in African Settlement and Modem Resettle-ment Programs / Marilyn Silberfein -- PART THREE The Evolution of Settlement Types: Some Case Studies -- 5 Settlement Concentration and Dispersal Among the Kofyar / Glenn Davis Stone -- 6 The Role of Villages and Ecological Constraints in Botswana / R.M.K. Silitshena -- 7 Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in the Sahel: The Case of Northern Yatenga / Burkina Paso, Robert E. Ford -- 8 Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in Humid Tropical Rwanda / Robert E. Ford -- PART FOUR Rural Development Programs: The Role of Settlement Structure -- 9 Participatory Development and Settlement in Southern Africa / Edward C. Green and Raymond T. Isely -- 10 The Design of Community and Its Socioecological Consequences: Marsabit District / Kenya, Asmarom Legesse -- PART FIVE National Settlement Strategies -- 11 Rural Settlement Patterns in Zimbabwe and State Manipula-tion of the Settlement Structure / Lovemore Zinyama -- 12 The Political Economy of Spatial Rationalization and Integration Policies in Tanzania / Richard J. Massaro -- PART SIX Conclusions and Implications for the Future -- 13 The Rural-Urban Nexus, Marilyn Silberfein -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Biography
Marilyn Silberfein
