Overview
- Fresh approach to architectural, urban design and planning challenges in Africa and the Global South
- Combination of theoretical and practice-based approaches
- Wide geographic coverage of included case studies across sub-Saharan Africa
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments.
Reviews
“This volume is a must-read for those researchers, planners, urbanists and activists who are interested in understanding Global South urbanism in general and in Africa in particular. Many critical essays, authored by both African and non-African scholars and practitioners, offer a valuable perspective on the complexities and challenges of urban processes in Africa, on planning epistemologies, on urban politics as well as on design strategies. The chapters are diverse and importantly they do not refer to African cities and urbanism in an essentialist manner, but rather they open new ways – often critical – to understand them. Through local eyes is a comprehensive and valuable resource book.” (Haim Yacobi, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College of London)
“This book provides a highly welcome contribution to the theories and practices of planning aiming to face the disconcerting inequalities of African cities. Drawing a well-constructed interpretative frame for the rich diversity of case study-based essays collected, the editors concur with the recently emerged literature on locally situated planning as against long-established physical or managerial approaches. Deftly, the introduction rightfully points to a number of drawbacks place-based approaches and grass-root actions may bear and their detrimental effects on a just urban development.” (Marcello Balbo, UNESCO Chair on the Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants – Urban Policies and Practices, Università Iuav di Venezia)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Cities Through Local Eyes
Book Subtitle: Experiments in Place-Based Planning and Design
Editors: Giuseppe Faldi, Axel Fisher, Luisa Moretto
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84906-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84905-4Published: 17 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84908-5Published: 18 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84906-1Published: 16 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 320
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Area Studies