ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the nature of the original investigations reported and the way in which the analysis of the field observations was developed. It determines the main inferences that can be drawn when the analysis of Avenue 21 is related to the African community as a whole. The chapter considers the relevance of the study to the general task of constructing models suitable for the analysis of African towns. Moreover, differences between localities and between tribal colonies make it foolhardy to try to draw close comparisons between Stanleyville as a whole and other African towns. The chapter suggests that the degree of 'civilization' of the inhabitants of Avenue 21 can be taken as some measure of the extent to which the life of the neighbourhood was governed by a common urban culture. It also suggests that the process of 'incapsulation' of rural migrants as described by Mayer for the 'Red' Xhosa had no close parallel in Avenue 21.
