The West-African City
Author: Jérôme Chenal
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782889149735
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Published: 2014
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ISBN-13: 9782889149735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Moriconi-Ebrard François
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-03-18
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9264252231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1950, there were only 152 urban agglomerations in West Africa. Since then, the number of agglomerations has increased to almost 2 000 town and cities which are home to 41% of the region’s total population.
Author: Jérôme Chenal
Publisher: EPFL Press
Published: 2014-05-08
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0415750210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis, macrocephali... The cities of west Africa are no longer ‘plannable’ – at least not using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory processes in city creation, it nonetheless seems crucial to return to city plans and models, to what cities convey, and how they are built. But to understand the city in all its depth and richness, we must also hit the streets. The West African City proposes a dual perspective. At the urban scale, it analyses historical trajectories, spatial development, and urban planning documents to highlight the major trends beyond the plans. At the second level – that of public space – the street is discussed as the city’s lifeblood. By innovating approaches and testing new methods, The West African City offers an unconventional look at Nouakchott, Dakar and Abidjan, the three study sites for this investigation. The city of today, in Africa or elsewhere, must re-examine its many social, economic, cultural, political, and spatial dimensions; for this, urban research has begun challenging its own methods. This book is also the companion of Chenal's MOOC African cities.
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alain Durand-Lasserve
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1464804346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book proposes a new approach for a systemic and dynamic analysis of urban and peri-urban land markets in West Africa and applies it to Bamako, Mali. Based on a description of 'land delivery' processes, it sheds light on the challenges faced by the urban poor in accessing secure land.
Author: Anthony O'Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1135671354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to individual cities. Much has been written about urban Africa, but nearly all relates to particular cities: this book provides a context for such studies. This review provides an essential foundation both for theoretical clarification of the processes of urbanization and for practical planning decisions. The topics covered range from rural-urban migration and national urban systems to the urban economy, housing , and the spatial structure of cities. The sharp contrasts between indigenous and colonial urban traditions are emphasized, but so also is the evidence for convergence today, as indigenization takes place in the colonial cities while Westernization proceeds ini those of indigenous origin. This book was first published in 1983.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-02-07
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 926431430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts.
Author: Bill Freund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-03-05
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1139459554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9264770860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report provides a new perspective on Africa’s urban economies that is unique in its breadth and level of detail. Based on data from more than 4 million individuals and firms in 2 600 cities across 34 countries, it presents compelling evidence that urbanisation contributes to better economic outcomes and higher living standards.
Author: David C. Conrad
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1604131640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores empires of medieval west Africa.