Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

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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