Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2020-2030

Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2020-2030

SADC Endorses North-South Economic Corridor Concept

 SADC Endorses North-South Economic Corridor Concept

SADC Statistics

 SADC Statistics

AFRICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2025

 AFRICAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2025

AFRICAN STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 2023 (publ. August 2025)

 AFRICAN STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 2023

(African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), 6 August 2025. 

MAP AFRICA

 

MapAfrica exploreS the African Development Bank Group's investments across the continent

Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2025: Planning for Urban Expansion, West African Studies

OECD et al. (2025), Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2025: Planning for Urban Expansion, West African Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/2a47845c-en.

African Studies Journals

 

African Studies Journals

Africapolis - Visualise urbanisation in Africa

Africapolis - Visualise urbanisation in Africa

Africapolis is a research and data visualisation tool used to map, analyse and understand urbanisation and urban growth in Africa

6th World Planning Schools Congress June 29-July 3, 2026

 

WPSC 2026

6th World Planning Schools Congress, June 29-July 3, 2026

Peripheral Visions - Rethinking Planning

Riscos na ilha de Santiago. Pluralidade na diversidade dos Riscos. Livro guia da visita de estudo à ilha de Santiago

 

Sílvia Monteiro & Vera Alfama (2025). Riscos na ilha de Santiago. Pluralidade na diversidade dos Riscos. Livro guia da visita de estudo à ilha de Santiago. V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Risco. Cidade da Praia, Santiago: Universidade de Cabo Verde.

Riscos na ilha do Fogo. Das Paisagens Protegidas aos Riscos naturais – Adaptação e Resiliência. Livro guia de apoio ao Workshop da ilha do Fogo

 

Vera Alfama & Sónia Silva Victória (2025). Riscos na ilha do Fogo. Das Paisagens Protegidas aos Riscos naturais – Adaptação e Resiliência. Livro guia de apoio ao Workshop da ilha do Fogo. V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Risco. Cidade da Praia, Santiago: Universidade de Cabo Verde.

Riscos na ilha do Maio. Das Paisagens Protegidas aos Riscos Naturais – Adaptação e Resiliência. Livro guia de apoio ao Workshop da ilha do Maio

 

Sónia Silva Victória; Lourdes Gonçalves & Ineida Carvalho (2025). Riscos na ilha do Maio. Das Paisagens Protegidas aos Riscos Naturais – Adaptação e Resiliência. Livro guia de apoio ao Workshop da ilha do Maio. V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Risco. Cidade da Praia, Santiago: Universidade de Cabo Verde.

Territorial Governance and Spatial Transformation in Post-apartheid South Africa

Daniel Du Plessis (2025). Territorial Governance and Spatial Transformation in Post-apartheid South Africa. Cham: Springer (Book Series: Local and Urban Governance). 

The book provides a reflective account of the evolution of the territorial governance structures and processes in South Africa over a period of 30 years after the transition to a post-apartheid society in 1994. It also considers the role and influence of these changing governance institutions and processes and their associated outputs (in the form of policies and plans) on several priority dimensions of urban spatial transformation. The synthesis of the experiences and lessons learnt provides the bases for contemplating important future focus areas for territorial governance such as spatial transformation towards smart cities, an African perspective for future South African cities, and transitioning towards a streamlined integrated territorial governance system. The lessons and experiences are not only of local significance in South Africa, but also globally in countries and regions faced with territorial governance and spatial transformation challenges. 

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Urban Water Governance in Postcolonial Zimbabwe

Abraham R Matamanda; Tazviona R Gambe; Johannes I Bhanye; Tafadzwa C Maramura & Oratilwe Khoza  (2025). Urban Water Governance in Postcolonial Zimbabwe. Cham: Springer (Book Series: Local and Urban Governance). 

This book focuses on urban water supply and governance in the Global South using urban Zimbabwe as a case study to provide insights and perspectives into the realities of the water governance. Applying a resilience and sustainability perspective, we argue that fragmentation of responsibilities between various institutions, the difficulty of coordination at various levels, and the politics centered on water supply constrain effective water governance in Zimbabwe. This has resulted in a downward spiral in urban water services in Zimbabwe's urban centers. Additionally, the innovative nature of this study is to draw from an often-neglected dimension in urban water governance, which is the political ecology which brings into perspective the varying int1erests associated with environmental contests and conflicts that influence water allocation and sharing among urban areas by the public sector. Therefore, this book dwells on understanding the politics, economic and ecology of water governance through an interdisciplinary lens. This analysis is critical for this study because Zimbabwe's current state of obsolete water infrastructure has also had a negative impact on the supply of high-quality portable water services to the public in urban areas. This book will be a critical read for academic and professionals in the fields of urban geographers, planners, sociologists and water experts. It will also be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students from Geography, Urban and regional Planning, Political Science, Development Studies and Economics. 

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AEGIS - AFRICAN STUDIES IN EUROPE

AEGIS (originally an acronym for ‘Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies’) is a network organisation made up of Europe-based member institutions connected to research and education on and in Africa and African Studies. 

World Congress of Architects - Barcelona. UIA 2026

UIA 2026 -  World Congress of Architects

Barcelona, 28 June - 2 July 2026

CABO VERDE - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE GESTÃO DO TERRITÓRIO (INGT)

 CABO VERDE - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE GESTÃO DO TERRITÓRIO (INGT)

IGU Regional Conference (IRC 2026) Istanbul, Türkiye

 

IGU Regional Conference (IRC 2026) Istanbul, Türkiye 

Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South. Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru

Christian Rosen & Nina Gribat (Eds.) (2025). Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South. Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru. London/New York: Routledge, ISBN 9781032840864, 194 Pages (OPEN ACCESS)

Advancing Urban-Rural Linkages: Digital Technology and Innovative Solutions for Food Flows and Territorial Resilience in East Africa

UN-HABITAT (2025). Advancing Urban-Rural Linkages: Digital Technology and Innovative Solutions for Food Flows and Territorial Resilience in East Africa. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

ASA - AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

ASA - AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

The Making of An African City: How Harare Grew Over Centuries.

 

Davison Muchadenyika (2025). The Making of An African City: How Harare Grew Over Centuries.

 

61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress

Cities & Regions in Action:
Planning Pathways to Resilience and Quality of Life
1-4 December 2025

Location: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Riscos

V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Riscos, subordinado ao tema “Território, Desenvolvimento e Riscos: das estratégias globais às ações locais”

Cape Verde, 8 – 10 July 2025 

A Associação Portuguesa de Riscos, Prevenção e Segurança (RISCOS), em colaboração com o Centro de Investigação em Desenvolvimento Local e Ordenamento de Território (CIDLOT), da Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnología da Universidade de Cabo Verde (FCTCV), e o Departamento de Geografia e Turismo da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, e com os seus parceiros Institucionais, está a organizar o V Simpósio Ibero-Afro-Americano de Riscos, subordinado ao tema “Território, Desenvolvimento e Riscos: das estratégias globais às ações locais”, que decorrerá, num sistema misto (presencial e online - videoconferência via Teams), entre os dias 8, 9, e 10 de julho de 2025, em Cabo Verde.

 

Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community

J. Ernst Drewes, Mariske van Aswegen (Eds.) (2024). Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community. London: Routledge.

Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Kerkennah Archipelago, Tunisia

UN-HABITAT (2025). Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Kerkennah Archipelago, Tunisia. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

L’urbanisme qui inspire les francophonies

 L’urbanisme qui inspire les francophonies

Divisão dos Países de Língua Portuguesa em Nomes Geográficos - IBGE

 

Divisão dos Países de Língua Portuguesa em Nomes Geográficos - IBGE

Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Debre Birhan City, Ethiopia

UN-HABITAT (2025). Multilayered Vulnerability Profile for Debre Birhan City, Ethiopia. 

Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

New Urbanist Books

New Urbanist Books

Building urban resilience and climate adaptation in African small island developing states after the COVID-19 crisis

UN-HABITAT (2025). Building urban resilience and climate adaptation in African small island developing states after the COVID-19 crisis. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Bridging the Divide: A review of Urban-Rural Linkages in Burkina Faso

UN-HABITAT (2025). Bridging the Divide: A review of Urban-Rural Linkages in Burkina Faso. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Urban-Rural Linkages and Global Pandemic Disruptions in Africa Impacts on Mobility, Spatial Interaction and Food Systems in Cameroon, Kenya, Niger State (Nigeria), Senegal and Zimbabwe

UN-HABITAT (2025). Urban-Rural Linkages and Global Pandemic Disruptions in Africa Impacts on Mobility, Spatial Interaction and Food Systems in Cameroon, Kenya, Niger State (Nigeria), Senegal and Zimbabwe. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

 

AAG Annual Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2025, Detroit, Mich., USA

Virtual Session - 'Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa' 

 

 Session Title: Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa

 Session Organizer & Chair: Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)

                                              African Urban Planning Research Network (AUPRN)

 Sponsor Group(s): AAG Africa Specialty Group

                                AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group

                                AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group

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Call for Papers International Workshop, ETH Zurich - Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland 2-4 November 2025 Diversifying the Architectural Canon with “Crossed Histories”

 Call for Papers

International Workshop, ETH Zurich - Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland
2-4 November 2025

Diversifying the Architectural Canon with “Crossed Histories” 

Organised by Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink and Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete 
Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design
Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich

Please submit full papers of 2500-3000 words (excl. references) and a short bio of no more than 200 words to Cathelijne Nuijsink (cathelijne.nuijsink@gta.arch.ethz.ch) by 15 May, 2025. 

Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Marrakech, Morocco on 18-20 February 2025

 

Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Marrakech, Morocco on 18-20 February 2025

Xudur Strategic Urban Plan for Durable Solutions to Displacement (Somalia)

 

UN-HABITAT (2025). Xudur Strategic Urban Plan for Durable Solutions to Displacement (Somalia). Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Middle East and North Africa

UN-HABITAT (2025). Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: Implementing the Pinheiro Principles in the Middle East and North Africa. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East

Khadija Darmame & Eric Ross (Eds.) (2024). Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East. Cham: Springer (Book Series: Local and Urban Governance).

 

This edited volume surveys how current local governance policies and development strategies across Africa and the Middle east are advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Morocco's recent experience with local development strategies serves as starting point for the discussion. Over the past decade, Morocco has undertaken a variety of initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and social inequalities and providing essential services to marginalized communities. These initiatives provide great opportunities to reshape the spatial organization of regions, and to address chronic local issues of infrastructure and investment. Local governance is the most direct way of providing basic services to populations, helping to alleviate socio-spatial inequalities. Also, it is and will continue to be the best way to engage people and local governments in economic, social and human development agendas. However, placing local governance at the heart of development strategies requires going well beyond participatory approaches to policy making. This volume assembles case studies from across the region, allowing for understandings that transcend the usual spatial dichotomies between "North" and "Sub-Saharan" Africa, between Africa and the Middle East, and between the "Anglophone" and  "Francophone" spheres. 

 

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Recent Advances and Prospects in Urban E-Planning

Silva, Carlos Nunes (Ed.) (2025). Recent Advances and Prospects in Urban E-Planning. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Scientific Publishing. |Pages: 614, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-5956-3, ISBN13: 9798369359563 

Book review - The promise of planning. global aspirations and South African experience since 2008

Silva, Carlos Nunes (2025). The promise of planning. global aspirations and South African experience since 2008: by Philip Harrison and Alison Todes, Abingdon, Routledge, 2025, 279 pp., £39 (paperback). Planning Perspectives, 40(2), 441–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2466989

Douala 3, Cameroon : Vision, Area Planning and Action Plan Report

UN-HABITAT (2025). Douala 3, Cameroon : Vision, Area Planning and Action Plan Report. 

Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

Jennifer Hart (2024). Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press, 316 Pages, 20 b&w illus.

Africa in Urban History

 

Ambe J. Njoh (2025). Africa in Urban History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vision, Area Planning, and Action Plan Report for Kafr El-Battikh City-Egypt

UN-HABITAT (2025). Vision, Area Planning, and Action Plan Report for Kafr El-Battikh City-Egypt. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Precarious Modernities Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco

Carlos Nunes Silva (2024). Book Review - Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco, in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Vol. 58, pp. 714-716

Journal - Town and Regional Planning

Town and Regional Planning

Town and Regional Planning is a South African accredited journal for independently adjudicated research articles on applicable topics in town, urban and regional planning. 

Open Access: https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/trp/index 

International Cartographic Association - Participatory Mapping Working Group

 International Cartographic Association - Participatory Mapping Working Group

Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa

Abraham R. Matamanda; James Chakwizira; Kudzai Chatiza; Verna Nel (Eds). (2024). Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa. Cham: Springer (Book Series: Local and Urban Governance).

 

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on secondary cities with original case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The authors are all African scholars, working and living in the region with intimate knowledge of the settings they describe. The book is critical as it includes such regional case studies of different secondary cities in Southern Africa but also because of it’s multidisciplinarity: it contains substantive and pertinent issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and basic services delivery. It considers diverse environments, yet with similar challenges that could provide useful policy and governance proposals for other cities.

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UN-HABITAT (2025). Adequate Housing for All - Annual Report 2024. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

 

UN-HABITAT (2025). Adequate Housing for All - Annual Report 2024. Nairobi: UN-Habitat.

Planning for Cities in Crisis. Lessons from Gondar, Ethiopia

Mulatu Wubneh (2023). Planning for Cities in Crisis. Lessons from Gondar, Ethiopia. Cham: Springer (Book Series: Local and Urban Governance).

This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant. The book takes a fresh look at the underlying causes of the crises and recommends good governance and strategic planning options that the city could use to develop a robust economy using surveys and other materials, including geez (old Ethiopian language) church sources. This book illustrates the usage of the concepts of resilience and sustainability to critically assess the historical and cultural transformation of cities and the role of local government in maintaining a sustainable community.

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