Africa’s Urban Revolution

Abstract

* 1. Africa's urban revolution in context - Edgar Pieterse and Susan Parnell * 2. Conflict and post-war transition in African cities - Jo Beall and Tom Goodfellow * 3. Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change - Susan Parnell and Ruwani Walawege * 4. Linking Urbanisation and development in Africa's economic revival - Ivan Turok * 5. Religion and social life in African cities - Carole Rakodi * 6. Feeding African cities: the growing challenge of urban food insecurity - Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne * 7. Transport pressures in urban Africa: practices, policies, perspectives - Gordon Pirie * 8. Decentralisation and institutional reconfiguration in urban Africa - Warren Smit and Edgar Pieterse * 9. The challenge of urban planning law reform in African cities - Stephen Berrisford * 10. The education and research imperatives of urban planning professionals in Africa - James Duminy, Nancy Odendaal and Vanessa Watson * 11. Filling the void: an agenda for tackling African urbanisation - Edgar Pieterse * 12. Infrastructure, real economies and social transformation: assembling the components for regional urban development in Africa - AbdouMaliq Simone * 13. National urbanisation and urban strategies: necessary but absent policy instruments in Africa - Susan Parnell and David Simon * 14. 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