INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF E-PLANNING RESEARCH, Vol. 3 (3), 2014

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF E-PLANNING RESEARCH
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Volume 3, Issue 3, 2014

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Participatory Mapping, Urban Land Registry, Disability Issues and MOOC in Planning Education: Lessons for e-Planning

Carlos Nunes Silva

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Participatory Mapping Approaches to Coordinate the Emergency Response of Spontaneous Volunteers After Hurricane Sandy (pages 1-19)

Pamela Wridt, John E. Seley, Scott Fisher, Bryce DuBois

Understanding the Weak Performance of Technology in Urban Management: Insights from the Urban Land Registry in Benin (pages 20-37)

Claire Simonneau

Disability Issues and Planning Education: Findings from a Longitudinal Survey of Planning Programs and Lessons for Urban e-Planning (pages 38-52)

Nathan W. Moon, Paul M.A. Baker, Robert G.B. Roy, Ariyana Bozzorg
 

Learning About E-Planning: The Results of a Massive Open Online Course Experiment (pages 53-76)

Jennifer S. Evans Cowley, Thomas W. Sanchez, Nader Afzalan, Abel Silva Lizcano, Zachary Kenitzer, Thomas Evans
 

BOOK REVIEW

Crowdsourcing

Carlos Nunes Silva

Luanda. Invenção de uma capital

Maria João Martins (2014). Luanda. Invenção de uma capital.

Gato do Bosque Editores.

Kinshasa

 

Bienvenu Bolia Ikoli (2014). Kinshasa Ma Ville, Ma Capitale.

Paris: L’Harmattan, 444 pp. (ISBN : 978-2-343-04257-2)

 

Beira /Mozambique - Património Arquitectónico / Architectural Heritage

João Sousa Morais; Luís Lage; Júlio Carrilho; Vicente Joaquim & Joana Bastos Malheiro (2014). Beira – Património Arquitectónico / Architectural Heritage. Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 226 pp

Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa. The Planner in Dirty Shoes

 

James Duminy, Jørgen Andreasen, Fred Lerise, Nancy Odendaal & Vanessa Watson (2014). Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa. The Planner in Dirty Shoes. Palgrave-Macmillan.

This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It is the outcome of a project operated by the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) from 2007 to 2011 to enhance case study research capacity amongst African planning students and academics. The editors and contributors argue that case study research can produce contextualized and empirical accounts of African urbanization and planning processes to challenge outdated assumptions underpinning urban planning education and practice in many parts of the continent. The volume features case studies and examples of innovative teaching practices from contexts including Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.

Water, History and Politics in Zimbabwe: Bulawayo’s Struggles with the Environment, 1894-2008

Mucha Musemwa (2014). “Water, History and Politics in Zimbabwe: Bulawayo’s Struggles with the Environment, 1894-2008”. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press.

This book examines the City of Bulawayo’s struggles with the environment from 1894 to 2008 given its location in the perennially semi-arid region of south-western Zimbabwe.  It focuses on a case-study of Makokoba, the city’s first and oldest township, and explores the history of its African residents and their struggles over access to water during this period from a ‘sustainable livelihoods’ perspective – one which emphasizes that human security and environmental sustainability are inextricably intertwined. The book argues that water scarcity in Bulawayo, especially as it affected Africans for the most part, was a result of both biophysical conditions and man-made policies which were linked to deep-rooted struggles over access to, and management of, water resources in both colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe.

Physical Planning and Food Security: The Nigerian Experience

Julius Ajilowo Bayode Olujimi & Olugbenga Franklin Enisan (2014). Physical Planning and Food Security: The Nigerian Experience. In J.A.B. Olujimi, O.O. Ogunsote and A.O. Awodele (Eds.).  Infrastructure, economic development and built environment. A book of readings. Akure, Nigeria: School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology.

African Statistical Yearbook 2014

 

 

African Statistical Yearbook 2014

 

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