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Title Page
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Contents
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Contributors
Chapter 1 Ancient, colonial, and post-colonial urban planning in Africa: An introduction
References
Part I Colonial urban planning and pre-colonial urban heritage in Africa
Chapter 2 The birth of a town: Indigenous planning and colonial intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The domestic unit and its cycle of development
2.3 From the first explorers to the birth of the ‘town’
2.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3 History of the urban planning of the city of Zinder in the Niger Republic
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Contextual background and methodology
3.2.1 Background
3.2.2 Issues
3.2.3 Methodology
3.3 Results
3.3.1 Institutional and regulatory framework and urban planning actors in Zinder
3.3.2 Spatial dynamics in Zinder
3.3.3 The organization of the ancient city of Birni
3.3.4 First sketch of planning of colonial period
3.3.5 The first serviced plots of the city of Zinder of the 1970s
3.3.6 Urban development plan (UDP) of 1980
3.3.7 Parcelling out without urban services from 2000 to 2017
3.4 Discussion
3.4.1 Zinder, fortified town with traditional architecture
3.4.2 Juxtaposition of the colonial city with ancient fabrics
3.4.3 Lack of synergy between urban planning actors in Zinder
3.4.4 Planning objectives partially achieved in Zinder
3.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4 Mise en valeur and repopulation in colonial rural development in French Morocco
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Centre, periphery, and resource extraction
4.3 The colonization corridor in the Gharb
4.4 Water, technology, and rural modernity
4.5 Housing the workforce: The Service de l’Urbanisme in the countryside
4.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5 Infrastructure and urban planning: The port and city of Algiers under French colonial rule, 19th–20th century
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ports as strategic areas for the colonial conquest of Algeria
5.2.1 The development of the port of Algiers: A modernizing benefit to the city
5.2.2 Maritime docks: A new façade for Algiers
5.3 The Chamber of Commerce of Algiers and the port-city governance: Power issues and territorial struggles
5.4 The city authority in port planning: A restricted intervention
5.5 The port in urban planning projects: The marginal area
5.6 The city of Algiers today, towardsa marketization of port area?
5.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Living in Lourenço Marques in the early 20th century: Urban planning, development, and well-being
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Gardening the city: Creating beautiful, pledging for health, promoting public spaces, and leisure areas
6.3 Urbanization, sanitation, and health measures: Finding a common path for a social segregation politics
6.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Colonizing and infrastructuring the Angolan territory through colonial settlements: The case of the Cela settlement
7.1 Introduction
7.2 On Angola’s colonization
7.3 The Cela settlement
7.4 Neo-colonialism?
7.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Diamang’s urban project: Between the Peace of Versailles and the Colonial Act
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Filling the void: Diamang’s arrival in Lunda
8.3 Occupation strategy: A pioneer in the edge of Angola
8.4 An absence of Africa in Africa: Settlements for European employees
8.5 Stabilizing workforce: Settlements for African workers
8.6 A sovereignty concern: Transcolonial networks
8.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Post-colonial urban planning in Africa
Chapter 9 Local governance and urban planning: Centralization, de-concentration, and decentralization in Africa
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Lusophone African countries
9.3 Analytical framework
9.4 Centralized, de-concentrated, and decentralized local governance: Results, analysis, and discussion
9.5 The spatial planning system: Centralized, de-concentrated, and decentralized
9.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 10 The resilience, adaptability, and transformation of the South African planning profession
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Resilience and the adaptive cycle
10.3 History of the South African planning profession
10.4 Resilience of the planning profession
10.5 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 11 Setting standards and competencies for planners
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Reasons for change
11.3 The planning competencies literature
11.4 Some history
11.5 The Bloemfontein competencies
11.6 SACPLAN’s competencies
11.7 Changes in the implementation environment
11.8 Competencies needed in South Africa
11.9 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 12 African design and CIAM expansion after the Charter of Athens
12.1 Introduction
12.2 CIAMs and the Charter of Athens
12.3 Post-war designers and CIAM geographic expansion
12.4 CIAM 9 on the African “habitat” and its design
12.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 13 To survey, control, and design: Doxiadis and Fathy on Africa’s future and identity (1959–1963)
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The developmental approach of Constantinos Doxiadis1
13.3 The city of the future and the African turn
13.4 Hassan Fathy and the role of the African continent
13.5 Dynapolis in Africa
13.6 From infrastructure to Ecumenopolis
13.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 14 New towns in Algeria: Planned process to control the accelerated urbanization, case of Sidi Abdellah and Ali Mendjeli
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Urbanization in Algeria
14.3 New towns policy in Algeria
14.4 New town created according to the descending procedure: The case of Sidi Abdellah
14.4.1 Presentation and situation of the new city Sidi Abdellah
14.4.2 Creation conditions of the new city Sidi Abdellah
14.4.3 Planning and implementation process of the new city Sidi Abdellah
14.4.4 Execution process of the new city Sidi Abdellah
14.5 New town created according to the ascending procedure: Case of Ali Mendjeli
14.5.1 Reasons for the creation of the new city Ali Mendjeli
14.5.2 Evolution of the population of Constantine
14.5.3 Presentation and situation of the new city Ali Mendjeli
14.5.4 Population of the new town Ali Mendjeli: Between prevision and reality
14.5.5 Planning and implementation process of the new city Ali Mendjeli
14.5.6 Execution process of the new city of Ali Mendjeli
14.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 15 Emergent urbanism in Angola and Mozambique: Management of the unknown
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Notable urbanization and new dynamics taking place
15.3 New emergent towns: Locating and reflecting
15.3.1 Towns accelerated by increased circulation: Ressano Garcia and Santa Clara borders
15.3.2 Towns accelerated by new opportunities: ‘Natural gas cities’ Pemba and Soyo
15.4 Urban dwellers: Expectations and realities in new towns
15.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 16 The Africanization of public space in South Africa: A moment
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Changing cities
16.3 Changing public spaces
16.3.1 Degradation
16.3.2 Mitigation
16.3.3 Adaptation
16.4 Changing paradigms
16.5 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 17 Missed the stop? Incremental upgrading or waiting for housing in Buffalo City
17.1 Introduction
17.2 The significance of informal settlement upgrading in South African housing policy
17.3 Buffalo City: A low-growth, high-inequality environment
17.4 Municipal planning and interventions for the improvement of precarious housing conditions
17.4.1 Buffalo City’s housing policy under the paradigm of de-densification
17.4.2 The provision of interim services
17.4.3 Coming to grips with the persistence of shacks
17.4.4 Winning laurels for rollover upgrading
17.5 Formalization of informal settlements in all sorts of troubles
17.5.1 Insufficient project preparation or unsatisfiable requirements?
17.5.2 Incompetent contractors or mission impossible?
17.5.3 Opportunistic behaviour by shack dwellers or a race that can’t be won?
17.6 Regularization: Ambition and reality of an alternative approach towards informal settlements upgrading
17.6.1 Basic tenets of the BCMM Informal Settlement Upgrading Policy and Strategy
17.6.2 The participatory elaboration of upgrading plans
17.6.3 Results of the planning exercise: Investment plans and long-term perspectives
17.6.4 Stuck in the starting block: The meagre outcomes of the upgrading policy
17.7 Reasons for the failed introduction of incremental upgrading policy
17.7.1 Inappropriateness of the institutional architecture
17.7.2 Lack of a political champion for incremental upgrading
17.7.3 Destabilizing effects of the public housing complex
17.7.4 Lack of support for incremental upgrading from national and provincial government
17.7.5 Limited buy-in and insufficient mobilization of shack dweller communities
17.8 Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 18 Framing power in co-production engagements in Kampala City, Uganda
18.1 Introduction
18.2 The unfinished business of power in planning
18.3 Nature of co-production
18.4 Power relations in co-production processes
18.5 Strategies of organizing influence in communities
18.6 Methodological approach and materials
18.7 Co-production processes and relations in Kampala
18.8 Analysis of the manifestations and framings of power in co-production processes
18.9 Configuring power in co-production tools and processes
18.10 The utopia of consensualism and the destabilizing role of co-production tools
18.11 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 19 Power-shifts in the organizational landscapes of transport provision: The introduction of BRT in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Organizational landscapes of transport provision in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam before MRT
19.2.1 The organizational landscape of transport provision in Nairobi
19.2.2 The organizational landscape of transport provision in Dar es Salaam
19.3 Transport provision in heterarchic institutional constellations
19.4 BRT: Power-shifts through transformative transport technology
19.4.1 Authority in transport provision in Nairobi with BRT: Outlook
19.4.2 Authority in transport provision in Dar es Salaam with BRT
19.5 Field configurations through BRT
19.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter 20 Informality, urban transport infrastructure, and the lessons of history in Accra, Ghana
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Visions of “Modernity”: Mobility and Infrastructure in contemporary Accra
20.3 Planning a “modern” city: Infrastructural imaginations and the model city
20.4 The Limits of “complete systems”: Popular logics and spatial realities
20.5 History lessons: Development failures and the limits of modernist visions
20.6 Southern urbanisms: Towards a critical urban planning practice
20.7 Conclusion: “Looking from” the lorry park to craft grassroots planning visions
Notes
References
Chapter 21 Moroccan towns: Nourishing urban spaces
21.1 Introduction
21.2 The two towns
21.2.1 Kasba Tadla4
21.2.2 Tinghir5
21.3 Transformations of food production in the urban context
21.3.1 Fields of change
21.3.2 Controversial practices
21.3.3 Various players
21.4 Sources of frictions and opportunities
21.4.1 Questions of hygiene and land
21.4.2 New customers and tasks
21.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 22 Planning for less planning: Supporting informal food systems in Nairobi
22.1 Introduction
22.2 Urbanization and food security
22.3 Global framing and urban food security governance
22.4 Nairobi’s urban food security governance and policy
22.4.1 Social protection: Cash transfers
22.4.2 Urban agriculture
22.4.3 Nairobi’s informal food economy
22.5 Recommendations
22.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Index