Title & Author:

Africa's urban revolution / edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse.

Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2014.

Description:

x, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Africa's urban revolution in context / Edgar Pieterse and Susan Parnell -- Conflict and post-war transition in African cities / Jo Beall and Tom Goodfellow -- Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change / Susan Parnell and Ruwani Walawege -- Linking urbanisation and development in Africa's economic revival / Ivan Turok -- Religion and social life in African cities / Carole Rakodi -- Feeding African cities : the growing challenge of urban food insecurity / Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne -- Transport pressures in urban Africa : practices, policies, perspectives / Gordon Pirie -- Decentralisation and institutional reconfiguration in urban Africa / Warren Smit and Edgar Pieterse -- The challenge of urban planning law reform in African cities / Stephen Berrisford -- The education and research imperatives of urban planning professionals in Africa / James Duminy, Nancy Odendaal and Vanessa Watson -- Filling the void : an agenda for tackling African urbanisation / Edgar Pieterse -- Infrastructure, real economies and social transformation : assembling the components for regional urban development in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- National urbanisation and urban strategies : necessary but absent policy instruments in Africa / Susan Parnell and David Simon -- Urbanisation as a global historical process : theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa / Sean Fox -- Postscript : building new knowledge and networks to foster sustainable urban development / Thomas Melin.

Summary:

"The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a more overtly urban agenda . As a result, there is across the continent insufficient urgency to respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with the world's last major wave of urbanisation."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781780325217 (hb)
1780325215 (hb)
9781780325200 (pb)
1780325207 (pb)

Subject:

Urbanization Africa.
Urbanisation Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban.
Urbanization
Verstädterung
Stadtentwicklung
Africa
Afrika

Added entries:

Parnell, Sue, editor.
Pieterse, E. A. (Edgar A.), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286169
Call No.: BIB 226332
Status: Available