Product Description: Focusing on West and Southern Africa, this book provides a comprehensive historical analysis of school building design, and then examines contemporary issues facing school design and delivery in the early 21st Century. The first section gives an historical synopsis of school design in Africa, focusing on the typology, planning and provision of schools through the changing political and cultural history of Africa...read more

Product Description: Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft boundaries, modern communication and networks of influence...read more

Product Description: Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon...read more

Product Description: The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political background: from the 1960s, the decade of independence, through to its development outlook as the new millennium unfolds...read more