African Cities Through Local Eyes: Experiments in Place-Based Planning and DesignGiuseppe Faldi, Axel Fisher, Luisa Moretto This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. |
Contents
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Towards Decolonial Urban Futures | 29 |
3 Urbanisation Without Urbanity Modernity Without Modernisation Recording Biographical Trajectories of Houses in the Dendi Rural Region North... | 44 |
Expressing African Heritage in Historic Charleston | 71 |
5 NatureBased Solutions for Public Green Spaces in SubSaharan AfricaIntegrating PlaceMaking and Green Infrastructure | 90 |
6 Slums as Opportunities? Spatial Organisation Microeconomy and Selfmade Infrastructures in Freetown Informal Settlements | 111 |
Architecture as a Multidimensional Impact Tool in Rural Lesotho | 129 |
A South African Reflection on the Limits and Opportunities of Design Praxis | 150 |
The Case of a Small Town in EthiopiaAmdework | 173 |
10 Transnational Urban Spaces Production Locations of the Global Clothing Industry in Ethiopia | 191 |
An Alternative Approach to Kinshasas Urbanization Using the Concept of Mboka Bilanga | 215 |
The Case of Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam | 245 |
13 Motivations to Coproduce Water Hygiene and Sanitation Services in the Periurban Area of Kinshasa | 265 |
The Case of Amdework | 287 |
15 Local Solid Waste Management Practices in the City of Zinder in Niger | 303 |
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Accessed activities actors Addis Ababa African cities Amdework analysis areas Birni Lafia Biyela Bole Lemi building built environment capability approach centre challenges Charleston Cilliers city’s co-production collaborative concept construction context cultural Dar es Salaam Dehana Dendi economic ecosystem services engagement environmental Ethiopia Faldi framework Freetown generalised trust Global South green infrastructure Gullah households industry parks informal inhabitants institutions inverse planning issues Johannesburg Karimama Kinshasa Lafia land libre de Bruxelles Modernist planning Molepolole Moretto municipal nature-based solutions Niger organisation participation peri-urban perspective Pieterse place-based approaches place-making and green planning theory plots political population practices public green spaces region residents Routledge rural sanitation sector Selembao settlements slums social solid waste South Africa spatial planning stakeholders structure sustainable tion town transnational Université libre University urban agriculture urban planning urban villages urbanisation VEA programme waste management Woreda Zinder