No place like home in the new city : anti-urbanism and life in Nairobi / Bettina Ng'weno.
| Author/creator | Ng'weno, Bettina author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] |
| Description | 221 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : dawn -- The rain at home -- Growing old in a new city -- One hundred years of segregation -- Dancing to the sound of Nairobi -- Remnant of a green city in the sun -- Remains of an unrealized yesterday -- Place of sweet water -- No place like home -- Conclusion : civil twilight. |
| Abstract | "Nairobi, named after the cool water that flows through it, started as a railway stop and became known as the Green City in the Sun. Yet the city has taken shape through a set of anti-urban ideologies and practices that insist that some people cannot, should not, and must not be permanent urban residents and that the city is not their home. Based on decades of experience in rapidly-changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in the New City traverses rivers, cemeteries, parks, railways, housing estates, roads and dancehalls to explore how policies of anti-urbanism manifest across time and space, shaping how people live in Nairobi. With deeply personal insights, Bettina Ng'weno highlights how people contest anti-urbanism through their insistence on building life in the city despite it, even in the current dynamic of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction. Through quotidian practices and creative resistance, long-term residents imagine alternatives to displacement, create belonging, and build new urban futures"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ng'weno, Bettina. No place like home in a new city. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] 9780520421226 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780520421226 |
| LCCN | 2025003767 |
| ISBN | 9780520421219 |
| ISBN | 9780520423206 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520423208 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520421213 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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