1st Edition
Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
1. The Failure of Western Intervention in Africa 2. The Evolution of Urban Development in Africa 3. How Modern Urban Infrastructure Evolved 4. Transferring the British Infrastructure Model to Africa 5. Decentralisation and Urban Infrastructure 6. Urbanization in Ethiopia 7. From Engineering to Infrastructure: Changing the Urban Paradigm 8. Rethinking Urban Development in Africa 9. A Green Infrastructure Model for Africa 10. Green Urban Infrastructure in Practice: Mediating Resource Flows 11. Green Infrastructure and Urban Governance 12. Building African Cities for a Sustainable Future
Biography
John Abbott is an international consultant specialising in the management of urban infrastructure, most recently with the government of Ethiopia. Over his career he has worked in local government, NGOs, the private sector and academia, where he was Professor of Urban Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
