Urban Transitions in Africa

This book provides an invaluable overview of urban transitions in Africa with a focus on innovations that offer alternative development approaches of these areas. The key to a successful transition is the nature of system changes and the identification of what is needed to harness the potential and expand possibilities that will enhance equity, address climate change, create sustainable cities and build resilient urban systems. This book provides a comprehensive discussion of these issues and amplifies the conversation with a particular focus on the opportunities, possibilities and complexities of urban transitions in Africa today, in conversation with Africans, for Africa. Each chapter synthesises insights from academic research, policy reports, case studies, and first-hand accounts, providing a comprehensive exploration of urban transitions in Africa. This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, urban planners, policy-makers, and anyone interested in understanding the complexities of urban transitions in Africa.

Sheds a positive light on the prospects for growth and social cohesion within urban African contexts Offers new frameworks and perspectives from emerging, thought-leaders on urban African debates Provides practical approaches to transitions that will lead to much needed urban transformation in Africa

Autorentext

Shuaib Lwasa is a professor in the field of urban resilience and global development at Erasmus University and University of Twente. He has published on several topics including climate change and cities, health, urban poverty and spatial planning. He has contributed to global scientific assessments of IPCC and UNDRR.

Mandipa B. Ndlovu is a doctoral candidate at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, researching the political economy of future governance in African cities. She has published on institutional reform and post-conflict justice and held visiting research positions at the University of Edinburgh and Stellenbosch University's Institute for Futures Research.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Locating Urban Transitions in Africa.- Chapter 3: Urban Governance and Decision-making.- Chapter 4: Resilient Transition in Times of Crisis: Opportunity Pathways from Harare and Lusaka (Citizens & Urban Governance).- Chapter 5: State-Induced Urban Insecurity: Implications for Urban Transitions at the Social Margins in Southern Africa (Insecurity of urban systems: Policies and regulations).- Chapter 6: The politics of forbearance as a development strategy in African cities: the case of Kampala's Informal Settlements (Society and State Relations).- Chapter 7: Colonialities, decolonisation and harnessing financial sovereignty and economic structures (Political economy of global city networks).- Chapter 8: Transforming Africa's Urbanization and Mineral Wealth into Engines of
Sustainable Growth and Industrialization (Climate change and critical mineral protection).- Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Geopolitics and Technology in Africa; Dependence or transactional (Geopolitics and technology: Transactions or Dependence).- Chapter 10: Markets, financing opportunities for urban transition in Africa (Financing the transition).