1st Edition

Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa

By John Abbott Copyright 2012
500 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

502 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

512 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are... Read more

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.