Faculty Profile: Garth A. Myers

Garth A. Myers
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Prof. of Urban Internat'l Studies & Director, CUGS
Phone: (860) 297-4273	Office Location: 70 Vernon Street 205
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Trinity College faculty member since 2011	View office hours for Spring 2026

Publications: Books

Myers, Garth. Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2020.
Myers, Garth. Urban Environments in Africa: a Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2016.

African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

Myers, Garth. Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance, and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2005.
Myers, Garth. Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, and Garth Myers, eds. Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011.
Murray, Martin, and Garth Myers, eds. Cities in Contemporary Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2006 (paperback edition, 2011).

Publications: Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

Myers, G. (2022) “Urban Governance Dynamics and Climate Change in East Africa: A Comparison of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi,” Journal of International Affairs, 74(1)(Fall 2021/Winter 2022): 83-104.
Myers, G. (2021) “The Intersection of Race and Architecture in the Swahili City-States,” Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, JSAH Roundtable: Constructing Race and Architecture (1400-1800), 80(4): 398-99.
Myers, G., Walz, J., and A. Jumbe (2020) “Trends in Urban Planning, Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Zanzibar, Tanzania,” Town and Regional Planning 77: 57-70.
Douglass, K., J. Walz, E. Quintana-Morales, R. Marcus, G. Myers and J. Pollini (2019) “Historical perspectives on contemporary human–environment dynamics in southeast Africa,” Conservation Biology 33(2): 260-274. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13244.
Hanlon, T., Richmond, A. K., Shelzi, J., and G. Myers (2019) “Cultural Identity in the Peri-Urban African Landscape: A Case Study from Pikine, Senegal,” African Geographical Review 38(2): 157-171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1403333.
Myers, G. (2018) “The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Reconceptualizing Planetary Urbanization,” International Development Policy/ Revue internationale de politique de developpement 10: 231-253.
Myers, G. (2015) “A World-Class City Region? Envisioning the Nairobi of 2030,” American Behavioral Scientist 59(3): 328-346.
Myers, G. (2014) “From Expected to Unexpected Comparison: Changing the Flows of Ideas about Cities in a Post-Colonial Urban World,” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1):104-118.
Myers, G. (2023) ‘The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism: Zanzibar in a Black and Blue World,’ in Handbook on Africa and Urban Anthropology, Deborah Pellow and Suzanne Scheld, eds., London: Routledge, pp. 239-259.
Myers, G. and F. Owusu (2023) “Colonised Peoples: The Struggle to Reframe (Neo)Colonial Planning in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa,” in Handbook of Alternative Planning History and Theory, D. Pojani (ed), London: Routledge, pp. 202-219.
Myers, G. (2021) ‘Urbanization in the Global South’, in Urban Ecology in the Global South, Charlie Shackleton, Sarel Cilliers, Elandrie Davoren and Marie du Toit (eds), Berlin: Springer, pp. 27-49.
Myers, G. (2021) ‘Nairobi,’ in Routledge Handbook for Regional Design, edited by Michael Neuman and Will Zonneveld, London: Routledge, pp. 214-226.
Myers, G. (2021) “The Making of Global Cityscapes,” in Handbook of Historical Geography edited by Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan and Charles Withers, London: Sage Publications, pp. 199-218.
Myers, G. (2020) ‘Environmental Challenges’, in Understanding Contemporary Africa (6th ed.), edited by Peter Schraeder, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 239-260.
Myers, G. (2020) “(Post?)-Colonial Parks: Urban Public Space in Trinidad and Zanzibar,” in A Companion to Public Space, edited by Danilo Palazzo and Vikas Mehta, London: Routledge, pp. 152-64.
Myers, G. and A. G. Subulwa (2019) “The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu: Narrating National Symbolism in Zambia,” in The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity, edited by Joshua Hagen and Alex Diener, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 121-36.
Myers, G. (2019) “Multi-Vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities through Africa’s Cities,” in Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, edited by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw, London & New York: Routledge, pp. 148-164.
Muhajir, M. and G. Myers. (2018) “Uncommon Misery, Relegated to the Margins: Tumbatu and 50 Years of the Zanzibar Revolution,” in Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar, edited by William Cunningham Bissell and Marie-Aude Fouéré, Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 191-222.
Myers, G. (2018) “Africa’s Urban Futures,” in The Routledge Handbook of African Development, edited by Tony Binns, Etienne Nel, and Kenneth Lynch, London: Routledge, pp. 465-473.
Myers, G. (2017) “African Ideas of the Urban,” in The Handbook of New Urban Studies, edited by John Hannigan and Greg Richards, London: SAGE Publications, pp. 449-461.
Myers, G. (2016) “‘The Trees are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of the Cultural Landscapes of Lusaka and Zanzibar,” in Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories, edited by Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz, Zurich: Springer, pp. 45-57.
Myers, G. (2016) “Representing Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural and Political Geographies,” in The Postcolonial World, edited by Jyotsna Singh and David Kim, London: Routledge, pp. 227-242.
Myers, G. (2015) “Remaking the Edges: Surveillance and Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs,” in: The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity, edited by Andreas Luescher and Carolyn Loeb, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 45-63.