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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790444903321

Autore

Abbott John <1947-, >

Titolo

Green infrastructure for sustainable urban design in Africa / / John Abbott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; ; New York : , : Earthscan, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-49138-4

1-283-45900-0

9786613459008

1-136-49139-2

0-203-13822-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Disciplina

307.1416096

Soggetti

Sustainable urban development - Africa

Sustainable urban development - Government policy - Africa

Urban ecology (Sociology) - Africa

City planning - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The failure of western intervention in Africa; Chapter 2 The evolution of urban development; Chapter 3 How modern urban infrastructure evolved; Chapter 4 Transferring the British infrastructure model to Africa; Chapter 5 Decentralisation and urban infrastructure; Chapter 6 Urbanisation in Ethiopia; Chapter 7 From engineering to infrastructure: changing the urban paradigm; Chapter 8 Rethinking urban development in Africa

Chapter 9 A model for green infrastructureChapter 10 Green urban infrastructure in practice: mediating urban resource flows; Chapter 11 Green infrastructure and urban governance; Chapter 12 Building African cities for a sustainable future; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of



networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made.With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between econ