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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476773203321

Autore

Marrengane Ntombini

Titolo

Reframing the urban challenge in Africa : knowledge co-production from the South / / edited by Ntombini Marrengane and Sylvia Croese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2021

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-00-300838-0

1-003-00838-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in cities and development

Disciplina

307.76096

Soggetti

Urbanization - Africa

Cities and towns - Africa

Rural-urban migration - Africa

Africa Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Africa's urban challenge / Sylvia Croese -- The formal-informal interface through the lens of urban food systems : the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia / Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe, Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu -- Formal-informal interface : comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities / Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker -- Dialogues on informality : land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya / Peter Ngau and Philip Olale -- Urban Infrastructure and Inequality : lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg / Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin -- Weathering the storm : reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana / Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King -- Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola's cities after conflict and who gets left behind / Allan Cain -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda for knowledge coproduction in urban Africa / Sylvia Croese.



Sommario/riassunto

The  works  contained  in  this  edited  volume  represent  the  culmination  of  eight  years of effort to plant and develop the foundation of an interdisciplinary African urban research network anchored in African institutions. With initial support from the  Rockefeller  Foundation  and  the  Cities  Alliance,  the  creation  of  the  African  Urban Research Initiative (AURI) network was subsequently fortified by the Ford Foundation’s call for scholarship oriented towards urbanism in the global South. Based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, AURI was thus designed to support and, where needed, strengthen exist-ing urban research centres on the African continent to produce credible and robust new knowledge on urban conditions in African cities.