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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and education in Africa are based. With that, it discusses the potentials of African cities to mobilise local knowledge, resources and capacity building for sustained and resilient urban growth.
This work is addressed to educationists and practitioners in the field of urban development management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience. Specifically, such audiences include researchers, spatial planners, graduate students and member of civil societies working on urban development management.
Table of ContentsPlanning cities in Africa – Current issues and future prospects of urban governance and planning: An introduction.- Part I: Planning theories and models - Application and local challenges.- The State, trust and cooperation: Local government-residents’ joint neighbourhood upgrading initiatives in Addis Ababa.- Street vending in downtown Rabat: In resistance to imported urban models.- Revisiting stokes’ theory of slums – Towards decolonised housing concepts from the Global South.- Part II: The state of planning education and planning capacity.- In a state of flux: Urban planning programmes in Asia and Africa.- Climate change adaptation and planning education in Southern Africa.- Is climate change knowledge making a difference in urban planning and practice: Perspectives from practitioners and policy makers in Tanzania Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert.- Contributions of local authorities to community adaptive capacity to impacts of climate change; A case study of sea level rise in Pangani Division, Pangani District.- Part III: Participatory and multi-level governance approach toward current urban challenges.- Qualities of urban planning and the conflict between participatory planning and planning standards: Evidence from Ethiopia.- Complementing or conflicting rationalities? How self-production practices in collective space can shape urban planning. Insights from Maputo City.- Translating globalised ideals into local settings: The actors and complexities of post-settlement water infrastructure planning in urban Ghana.
