TY - BOOK AU - Nunes Silva,Carlos AU - Nunes Silva,Carlos TI - Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa SN - 9781032086545 PY - 2020/// PB - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint] KW - City planning KW - Africa KW - fast KW - Development studies KW - thema KW - Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning KW - Interdisciplinary studies KW - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects KW - Regional and area planning KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Third World Development KW - bisacsh KW - Urban and municipal planning and policy KW - Adaptive Cycle Model KW - Africa urban planning KW - african development KW - BRT KW - BRT Corridor KW - BRT Project KW - BRT System KW - Buffalo City KW - Central Government KW - Colonial Administration KW - de-colonization KW - Development Facilitation Act KW - Habitat Iii KW - Informal Food Sector KW - Informal Settlement Upgrading KW - Informal Settlements KW - Le Corbusier KW - local governance KW - Lusophone African Countries KW - planning africa KW - Planning Profession KW - Planning Profession Act KW - Public Private Partnership KW - South African Cities KW - Spatial Planning KW - Spatial Planning Systems KW - urban africa KW - Urban Agriculture KW - Urban Food Security KW - Urban Hunger KW - urban planning africa KW - urban policy responses KW - urbanisation africa KW - Young Men N1 - Free-to-read N2 - This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems, challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions, looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses, but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries, offering ample evidence of common features, and divergent features as well, on a number of facets, from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives, to the assimilation policy, as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies. Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa, urban planning in Africa and African Development UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88071 ER -