The Urban Challenge In Africa
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Author |
: Ntombini Marrengane |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2020-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000333411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000333418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa by : Ntombini Marrengane
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings together contributions from local researchers investigating key themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important example of urban knowledge co-production, the book demonstrates the regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003008385, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author |
: Carole Rakodi |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105020418062 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Urban Challenge in Africa by : Carole Rakodi
In this work, scholars examine the growth of the largest cities in Africa. It is revealed that the new phase of globalization has reinforced the continent's marginalization, impoverishment, indebtedness, and lack of policy autonomy, rather than leading to economic growth and diversification.
Author |
: Ntombini Marrengane |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2020-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000333534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000333531 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa by : Ntombini Marrengane
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings together contributions from local researchers investigating key themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important example of urban knowledge co-production, the book demonstrates the regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003008385, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author |
: John Hutton |
Publisher |
: [Nairobi] : East African Publishing House |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3917205 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Challenge in East Africa by : John Hutton
Author |
: Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2014-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317701224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317701224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa by : Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa
The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa’s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African cities have developed haphazardly, resulting in the decline of public services, in slum proliferation, and increases in poverty. African cities thrive on activities characterized by easy entry and low productivity, generally referred to as the "informal sector". Indeed, today some urban dwellers are poorer than their cousins in the countryside. In spite of reform attempts, many governments have not been able to create an enabling environment, with adequate infrastructure and institutions to sustain markets for easy exchange and production. This study argues that with careful policies and planning, the situation can be changed. If the recent natural resource-led economic boom that we have seen in many African countries is used for structural reforms and urban renewal, African cities could become centers of economic opportunity. The challenge for African policymakers is to ensure that urban development is orderly and that the process is inclusive and emphasizes the protection of the environment, hence green growth.
Author |
: Carole Ammann |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2018-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004387942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004387943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Cities and the Development Conundrum by : Carole Ammann
This 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa’s urban development. Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Karen Büscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz, Ton Dietz, Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren Smit, and Florian Stoll.
Author |
: Carlos Nunes Silva |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2015-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317753162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131775316X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Carlos Nunes Silva
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning practices and future reforms. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa gives a broad perspective of the history of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and a critical view of issues, problems, challenges and opportunities confronting urban policy makers. The book examines the rich variety of planning cultures in Africa, offers a unique view on the introduction and development of urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and makes a significant contribution against the tendency to over-generalize Africa’s urban problems and Africa’s urban planning practices. Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa is written for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates, researchers, planners and other policy makers in the multidisciplinary field of Urban Planning, in particular for those working in Spatial Planning, Architecture, Geography, and History.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: UN-HABITAT |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789211320152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9211320151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The State of African Cities 2008 by :
With rapidly increasing urban populations, cities in Africa are faced with enormous challenges and will have to find ways to facilitate by 2015 urban services, livelihoods and housing for more than twice as many urban dwellers than it has today. A worrying trend with the African urbanization process is that it is a process rooted in poverty rather than an industrialization-induced socio-economic transition as in other major world urban regions. Africas escalating urban problems have received less attention than warranted and now, at the dawn of Africas urban age, these need to be addressed - publisher.
Author |
: James Duminy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 062087063X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780620870634 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Supporting City Futures by : James Duminy
Author |
: Private Sector Council on Urbanisation (South Africa) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105082376067 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policy Overview by : Private Sector Council on Urbanisation (South Africa)