1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa
1. Ancient, Colonial and Post-Colonial Urban Planning in Africa - An Introduction
Carlos Nunes Silva
Part 1: Colonial Urban Planning and Pre-Colonial Urban Heritage in Africa
2. The Birth of a Town. Indigenous Planning and Colonial Intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
Domenico Cristofaro
3. History of the Urban Planning of the City of Zinder in the Niger Republic
Abdou Kailou Djibo
4. Mise En Valeur and Repopulation in Colonial Rural Development in French Morocco
Michele Tenzon
5. Infrastructure and Urban Planning: The Port and City of Algiers under French Colonial Rule, 19th - 20th Century
Souha Salhi
6. Living in Lourenco Marques in the Early 20th Century: Urban Planning, Development and Well-Being
Ana Roque
7. Colonizing and Infra-Structureing the Angolan Territory Through Colonist Settlements: The Case of the Cela Settlement
Filipa Fiúza and Ana Vaz Milheiro
8. Diamang's Urban Project - Between the Peace of Versailles and the Colonial Act
Ana Vaz Milheiro and Beatriz Serrazina
Part 2: Post-Colonial Urban Planning in Africa
9. Local Governance and Urban Planning: Centralization, De-Concentration and Decentralization in Africa
Carlos Nunes Silva
10. The Resilience, Adaptability and Transformation of the South African Planning Profession
Verna Nel and Martin Lewis
11. Setting Standards and Competencies for Planners
Martin Lewis and Verna Nel
12. African Design and Ciam Expansion after the Charter of Athens
Elisa Dainese
13. To Survey, Control and Design: Doxiadis and Fathy on Africa's Future and Identity, 1959-63
Filippo De Dominicis
14. New Towns in Algeria: Planned Process to Control the Accelerated Urbanization, Case of Sidi Abdellah and Ali Mendjeli
Nadia Chabi and Khalil Bouhadjar
15. Emergent Urbanism in Angola and Mozambique: Management of the Unknown
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
16. The Africanisation of Public Space in South Africa: A Moment of Opportunity
Karina Landman
17. Missed the Stop? Incremental Upgrading or Waiting For Housing in Buffalo City
Gerhard Kienast
18. Framing Power in Co-Production Engagements in Kampala City, Uganda
Gilbert Siame and Wilma S. Nchito
19. Power-Shifts in the Organisational Landscapes of Transport Provision - The Introduction of BRT in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam
Nadine Appelhans and Sabine Baumgart
20. Informality, Urban Transport Infrastructure, and the Lessons of History in Accra, Ghana
Jennifer Hart
21. Moroccan Towns - Nourishing Urban Spaces?
Heide Studer
22. Planning for less Planning: Supporting Informal Food Systems in Nairobi
Andrea M. Brown
Biography
Carlos Nunes Silva, Geographer, PhD, is Professor Auxiliar at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the Chair of the IGU Commission on ‘Geography of Governance’ and the founding editor-in-chief of the ‘International Journal of E-Planning Research’.
