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Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa: Knowledge Co-production from the South book cover

1st Edition

Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa Knowledge Co-production from the South

Edited By Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese Copyright 2021
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa’s Urban Challenge

Sylvia Croese

Chapter 2: The Formal-Informal Interface Through the Lens of Urban Food Systems: the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia

Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe; Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu

Chapter 3: Formal-Informal Interface: comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities

Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker

Chapter 4: Dialogues on Informality: land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya

Peter Ngau and Philip Olale

Chapter 5: Urban Infrastructure and Inequality: lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg

Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin

Chapter 6: Weathering the Storm: reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana

Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King

Chapter 7: Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola’s cities after conflict and who gets left behind

Allan Cain – Development Workshop Angolal

Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards a Research Agenda for Knowledge Co-production in Urban Africa

Sylvia Croese

Index

Biography

Ntombini Marrengane is the Manager of the Secretariat for the African Urban Research Initiative (AURI), a Pan African, interdisciplinary applied urban research network, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Sylvia Croese is a Research Associate based with the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town and a senior researcher with the Univeristy of the Witwatersrand (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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