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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.40,Issue1,P.128-157

语言

英文

关键字

Sociotechnical systems; urban-regional development; extraversion; parasitic urbanization; Tanzania; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; DAR-ES-SALAAM; POLITICAL-ECONOMY; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; WAGE GOODS; GROWTH; REFLECTIONS; DYNAMICS; WORLD; GLOBALIZATION

作者单位

[Murphy, James T.] Clark Univ, Grad Sch Geog, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610 USA. [Carmody, Padraig R.] Univ Dublin Coll Green, Trinity Coll Dublin, Dept Geog, Dublin, Ireland. [Carmody, Padraig R.] Univ Johannesburg, Dept Geog Energy & Environm Management, Johannesburg, South Africa. Murphy, JT (reprint author), Clark Univ, Grad Sch Geog, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610 USA. E-Mail: jammurphy@clarku.edu

摘要

Africa's recent growth successes are raising hopes that its cities can generate the positive externalities needed to sustain long-term development. This paper examines the prospects for such a transformation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A sociotechnical systems framework is elaborated: one which conceptualizes urbanization pathways as determined by the practices, modes of governance, couplings, and multiscalar relations that constitute production, consumption, and infrastructure regimes in cities. The framework is deployed to assess whether Dar es Salaam's industries, markets, public services, and built environments are generating distributive development outcomes. The analysis shows that the city is experiencing socioeconomically and spatially uneven development driven by processes of extraversion, intraversion, and splintering. Urban regimes are thus serving a more "parasitic" role by channeling capital offshore, bringing imports onshore, and creating highly uneven distributions of basic services. The paper highlights points of intervention and the value of the conceptual approach for comparative urban research.