The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam

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African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large—scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self—built housing on the urban peripher...