Documenta11_Platform4 Under Siege: Four African Cities Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos Inhalt: Preface Introduction Cities in Transition: The Fate of African Urban Systems AbdouMaliq Simone The Visible and Invisible: Remaking Cities in Africa Carole Rakodi Order and Disorder in African Cities: Governance, Politics, and Urban Land Development Processes Antoine Bouillon Between Euphemism and Informalism: Inventing the City Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis From Obsolescence to Dynamism: Reinterpreting African Urban Futures Babatunde A. Ahonsi Popular Shaping of Metropolitan Forms and Processes in Nigeria: Glimpses and Interpretations from an Informed Lagosian Lindsay J. Bremner Closure, Simulation, and “Making Do” in the Contemporary Johannesburg Landscape Rem Koolhaas Fragments of a Lecture on Lagos Thierry Nlandu Kinshasa: Beyond Chaos Ibrahim Abdullah Space, Culture, and Agency in Contemporary Freetown: The Making and Remaking of a Postcolonial City Exploring the Rift/Shift in the African Urban Paradigm Maxine Reitzes “There’s Space for Africa in the New South Africa (?)”: African Migrants and Urban Governance in Johannesburg Koku Konu Regenerating Downtown Lagos Filip De Boeck With photographs by Marie-Françoise Plissart Kinshasa: Tales of the “Invisible City” and the Second World Alfred B. Zack-Williams Freetown: From “the Athens of West Africa” to a City Under Siege: The Rise and Fall of Sub-Saharan First Municipality Onookome Okome Writing the Anxious City: Images of Lagos in Nigerian Home Video Films Urban Processes and Change in Africa Mohamadou Abdoul The Production of the City and Urban Informalities: The Borough of Thiaroye-sur-mer in the City of Pikine, Senegal Victor A.O. Adetula Welfare Associations and the Dynamics of City Politics in Nigeria: Jos Metropolis as Case Study Mohammed Gheris Housing in Marrakech: The Contradictions of Public Interventions Jean Omasombo Tshonda Kisangani and the Curve of Destiny Mohammed-Bello Yunusa Environment and Inhabitants of an Unplanned Area of Zaria, Nigeria Bahru Zewde The City Center: A Shifting Concept in the History of Addis Ababa Contributors