Metropoles in Africa

Abstract

A growing number of people in the developing world live in metropolitan areas. ‘Metropolization’ and unrelenting urban growth, particularly in developing countries, has resulted in urban problems such as poverty, lack of basic needs, infrastructural deficiencies and backlogs, and lack of human and financial resources which have had a negative impact on the metropolitan municipality’s capacity to perform their mandated functions. This is in direct contrast to the major metropoles of the developed world that often have the required resources and capacity to manage the process of metropolitization.