The State of the African Cities 2018

UN-HABITAT (2018). The State of the African Cities 2018. The Geography of African Investment.

African Statistical Yearbook 2018

 

African Statistical Yearbook 2018

World Urbanization Prospects. The 2018 Revision

UN (2018). World Urbanization Prospects. The 2018 Revision.

Planning Law Assessment Framework

 

UN-HABITAT (2018). Planning Law Assessment Framework

Réforme des Lois Urbaines en Afrique. Guide Pratique

Stephen Berrisford & Patrick McAuslan (2018). Réforme des Lois Urbaines en  Afrique. Guide Pratique (French edition). Cape Town: African Centre for Cities, 56 pp.

Dynamique Urbaine et Vie Rurale au Congo-Brazzaville

Patrice Moundza (ed) (2018). Dynamique Urbaine et Vie Rurale au Congo-Brazzaville. Observations et enquêtes. Paris: Harmattan, 154 pages (EAN : 9782343152431) 

La ville et la campagne congolaise évoluent aujourd'hui dans la précarité. L'intervention des pouvoirs publics, à travers un urbanisme à la fois radical et véritablement réfléchi, est très attendue en vue de l'amélioration des conditions de vie des populations urbaines et rurales : un service public fort et une économie locale dynamique. Cela requiert un modèle de gestion spatiale à même de réduire la fracture territoriale à travers la construction de nouvelles solidarités.

Géographie du Sahara Occidental

Ahmed Abdallah (2018). Géographie du Sahara Occidental (En Arabe). Paris: Harmattan, 138 pages (EAN : 9782343155890)

Ce livre est une présentation géographique du Sahara occidental. Il s'applique en particulier à présenter la géographie du territoire en utilisant la toponymie traditionnelle des lieux et des régions du Sahara occidental.

Les Institutions Provinciales face au Défi du Développement de la RDC

Emmanuel Landa (2018). Les Institutions Provinciales face au Défi du Développement de la RDC. Paris: L'Harmattan, 330 pp. 

Ce livre rend compte de l'effectivité du fonctionnement des institutions provinciales issues de la Constitution du 16 février 2006 en République démocratique du Congo et des résultats engrangés par leur mise en oeuvre. L'auteur part de l'histoire des institutions provinciales depuis l'indépendance, à travers les diverses constitutions du Congo-Kinshasa. Il explique les conditions sociohistoriques qui ont influencé la production de ses constitutions et leurs répercussions sur la marche des entités provinciales.Il propose des mesures correctionnelles portant sur les textes, l'organisation et les hommes.

Décentraliser au Cameroun. Dynamiques institutionnelles et logiques des acteurs

Alawadi Zelao (Ed.) (2018). Décentraliser au Cameroun. Dynamiques institutionnelles et logiques des acteurs. Paris: L'Harmattan Paris: L'Harmattan, 264 pp. 

La décentralisation est aujourd'hui l'un des acquis des processus démocratiques qui ont enclenché des réformes institutionnelles dans beaucoup des pays africains subsahariens au milieu des années 1990. Somme de regards pluriels et multidisciplinaires (sociologie, science politique, droit), les études réunies dans cet ouvrage privilégient les observations empiriques et les approches contextuelles du processus de la décentralisation au Cameroun. Au-delà de la teneur institutionnelle et du décor normatif meublé par la loi de 2004, la décentralisation est restituée au vitriol de ses modes d'expression concrète.

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019

 

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR),

Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019 

 

 

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USAwww.igi-global.com/ijepr

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

EDITORIAL PREFACE

 

Citizen and Crowd Participation in Urban e-Planning

Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

ARTICLE 1

 

Mining Social Media to Measure Neighborhood Quality in the City of Atlanta

Subhrajit Guhathakurta (Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Ge Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Guangxu Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Caroline Burnette (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Isabel Sepkowitz (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)

ARTICLE 2

Citizen Participation and the Rise of Digital Media Platforms in Smart Governance and Smart Cities

Olga Gil (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), María E. Cortés-Cediel (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), Iván Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

ARTICLE 3

Immersive Computing and Crowd Simulation Techniques in Modelling Urban Commons: The Case of Nicosia-Cyprus

Georgios Artopoulos (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus), Panayiotis Charalambous (The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus), Colter Eugene Wehmeier (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA)

ARTICLE 4

Online or Offline Services for Urban Neighbourhoods?: Conceptualisation of Research Problems

Lukasz Damurski (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland), Jacek Pluta (Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland), Jerzy Ładysz (Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism, Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland), Magdalena Mayer-Wydra (Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)

CONFERENCE REPORT

 

3rd International Conference on Urban e-Planning - 2018

Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

BOOK REVIEW

Encounters in Planning Thought: 16 Autobiographical Essays From Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning

Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

César Cort (1893-1978) y la cultura urbanística de su tiempo

Maria Cristina Garcia Goonzález (2918). César Cort (1893-1978) y la cultura urbanística de su tiempo. Madrid: Abada Editores.

Conferência Internacional - Governança Local e Urbana: Tendências, Desafios e Inovações num Mundo Globalizado

Conferência Internacional 

Governança Local e Urbana: Tendências, Desafios

e Inovações num Mundo Globalizado 

União Geográfica Internacional

Comissão de Geografia da Governança

 

4 a 7 de setembro de 2019

Cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde 

A Conferência Internacional sobre Governança Local e Urbana: tendências, desafios e inovações num mundo globalizado, organizada  pela Comissão de Geografia da Governança da União Geográfica Internacional (UGI), em colaboração com a Universidade de Cabo Verde (UNI-CV), será realizada na Cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde, de 4 a 7 de setembro de 2019. 

A Conferência pretende explorar e discutir as mudanças, desafios e inovações que confrontam a Governança Local e Urbana no contexto das novas agendas urbanas globais. Será um fórum para a discussão do estado da arte da pesquisa sobre governança local e urbana, nas diferentes regiões do mundo.

Dentro deste objetivo geral, a Conferência Anual de 2019 da Comissão de Geografia da Governança Local da UGI também visa proporcionar a oportunidade de comparações entre os municípios africanos e as cidades africanas, bem como comparações com outras regiões do mundo. 

Para mais informações, visite o site da conferência: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2019/home

Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

Jane Battersby & Vanessa Watson (Eds) (2018). Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities. Routledge  (Open Access) 

Description 

As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). 

The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely.

 

Download: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351751353

4ª Conferência Internacional "Urban e-Planning"

4ª Conferência Internacional "Urban e-Planning"

 

O planeamento urbano tem sido confrontado, nas últimas décadas, com desafios novos e complexos, em parte decorrentes do uso generalizado das tecnologias de informação e comunicação em todas as fases do processo de planeamento e gestão do território. As Conferências 'Urban e-Planning', promovidas pela revista 'International Journal of E-Planning Research' (IJEPR), são um fórum onde são apresentados e discutidos anualmente os desenvolvimentos recentes na investigação realizada no domínio do e-planeamento urbano. As três conferências anteriores foram organizadas pelo Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa e pela revista IJEPR, em 2016, 2017, e em 2018, na Universidade de Lisboa, com participantes oriundos de mais de 20 países.  

A quarta conferência, a realizar em 23 e 24 de Abril de 2019, no Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa, abordará 4 temas:  

Tema 1: Governance and Planning of Smart Cities

Tema 2: Citizens e-Participation in Urban Planning

Tema 3: The Real and Virtual in Urban e-Planning

Tema 4: Data Analytics and New Decision Support Tools for Urban e-Planning

Mais informação em: https://sites.google.com/view/uep2019-conference/home

E-mail: ijepr.conference@gmail.com

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017

UN (2017). The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017

PUA - Viagem de estudo a Cabo Verde 2018

PUA - Viagem de estudo a Cabo Verde 2018 >>>

 

Transformation 95, 2017 - Special Issue: Megaprojects for South Africa's Settlements

Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa

 

Transformation 95, 2017

Special Issue: Megaprojects for South Africa's Settlements 

The European Union and the African Union - A statistical portrait — 2018 edition

 

The European Union and the African Union - A statistical portrait — 2018 edition

This ‘statistical portrait’ presents, in roughly 100 pages, a broad comparison between the situation of the European Union, including EFTA members and Candidate Countries, and the African Union and its member states. The publication is jointly produced by Eurostat and the Statistics Division of the African Union Commission.

The local and the global in the development of planning knowledge

 

PatsyHealey (2018). The local and the global in the development of planning knowledge.ARCPLAN, Volume April 2018

Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology

 

Rose-Redwood, Reuben & Bigon, Liora (Eds.) (2018).

Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology. Springer

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 4, October - December 2018

 

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)Volume 7, Issue 4, October - December 2018
Indexed by: Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC, SCOPUS, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijepr

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

 

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Collaborative e-Planning and the Geography of e-Government
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)

ARTICLE 1
A Spatio-Temporal Decision Support System for Designing With Street Trees
Marcus R. White (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia), Nano Langenheim (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

ARTICLE 2
Creating Collaborative Environments for the Development of Slum Upgrading and Illegal Settlement Regularization Plans in Brazil: The Maria Tereza Neighborhood Case in Belo Horizonte
Rogério Palhares Zschaber de Araújo (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Ana Clara Mourão Moura (UFMG, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Thaisa Daniele Apóstolo Nogueira (PUC-Minas, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

ARTICLE 3
Public Participation in Local Regeneration Programmes in Poland: Case Study of Olkusz
Magdalena Miśkowiec (Institute of Urban Development, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland), Katarzyna Maria Gorczyca (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

ARTICLE 4
Geographies of e-Government in Europe: European e-Government
Barney Warf (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA)

BOOK REVIEW
Data and the City
Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal)

Abstracts >>

Inclusive Urban Development in South Africa

 

Ivan Turok andJustin Visagie (2018). Inclusive Urban Development in South Africa: What DoesIt Mean and How Can It Be Measured? IDS WORKING PAPER , Volume 2018, No 512

FILME - Maputo - Ethnography of a Divided City

 

FILME

Maputo - Ethnography of a Divided City

Film «Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City» (74 minutes) by ANIMA Estúdio Criativo in cooperation with Chr. Michelsen Institute

Diamniadio. Naissance d'une nouvelle ville

 

Djibril Diop & Aly Sada Timéra (2018). Diamniadio. Naissance d'une nouvelle ville:

enjeux et défis d'une gouvernance durable. Paris: Harmattan , 228 pp.

Addressing food security in African cities

Battersby,J. & Watson, V. (2018). Addressing food security in African cities, 

NatureSustainability, 1, 153-155.

«In sub-Saharan Africa, the food system impacts on a number of urban development issues such as poverty, unemployment and poor health. Informal traders meet the food needs of many poor urban households. However, supermarket chains are changing this, demanding particular policy and planning responses.»

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 3, July - September 2018

 

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 7, Issue 3, July - September 2018
www.igi-global.com/ijepr

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Indexed by: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS and 14 more Indices

Table of Contents ->
 

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Smart Cities, Digital Inclusion and Digital Participatory Platforms

Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Smart City Planning: Complexity

Ulrik Ekman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Advertising-cities face to Smart-cities: The trends of integration policies for information new technologies in Madrid

Leticia Jácomo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

A New Governance Model For Delivering Digital Policy Agendas? A Case Study Of Digital Inclusion Amongst Elderly People In The UK

Paul Anthony Hepburn (Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

The 2nd International Conference on Urban e-Planning

Carlos Nunes Silva (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Digital Participatory Platforms for Co-Production in Urban Development. A Systematic Review

Enzo Falco (TU Delft - Department OTB Research for the Built Environment, The Netherlands)
Reinout Kleinhans (TU Delft - Department OTB Research for the Built Environment, The Netherlands)

The Radicalization of Heritage in Tunisia

Virginie Rey (2018). The Radicalization of Heritage in Tunisia.

International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Volume 7 Issue 1.

The Urban Grid and Entangled Planning Cultures in Senegal

Eric Ross & Liora Bigon (2018). “The Urban Grid and Entangled Planning Cultures in Senegal.” In Planning Perspectives, 26 p.

The everyday politics of waste collection practice in Addis Ababa

Nebiyu Baye Alene (2018). The everyday politics of waste collection practice in Addis Ababa (2003–2009). Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (First Published February 12, 2018) 

Participation of Informal Settlers in Participatory Land Use

Gwaleba, M.J. & Masum, F. (2018). Participation of Informal Settlers in Participatory Land Use Planning Project in Pursuit of Tenure Security. Urban Forum (First Online: 19 February 2018)

Gentrification in Lagos, 1929–1990

Lanre Davies (2018). Gentrification in Lagos, 1929–1990. Urban History, 1-21.

(Published online:  19 February 2018)

2nd Symposium of the Association of Tunisian Geographers 2018

2nd Symposium of the Association of Tunisian Geographers 2018 

Hammamet, Monday 12th November to Saturday 17th November 2018 

The Association of Tunisian Geographers organizes the 2nd international symposium on the theme: Territories, Global Change and Sustainable Development

Conference - DSA 2018: Global inequalities

Development Studies Association

DSA 2018: Global inequalities

University of Manchester, 27-29th June

 

Leading Change: Delivering The New Urban Agenda through Urban and Territorial Planning

 

UN-HABITAT(2018). Leading Change: Delivering The New Urban Agenda through Urban and Territorial Planning. KualaLumpur: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (download pdf,108 pp.)

 

African Statistical Yearbook - 2017

 

African Statistical Yearbook - 2017

IJEPR included in Web of Science ESCI

International Journal of E-PlanningResearch (IJEPR)

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva
(Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal) 

'International Journal of E-Planning Research' (IJEPR) included in Web of Science Emerging
 Sources Citation Index (ESCI). 

The IJEPR is now indexed in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), in
SCOPUS, and in 14 more Indices. 

BROCHURE ->
 

Processus du Budget Participatif au Sud-Kivu. Entre pratique démocratique et slogan idéologique

 

Landry Aksanti-Kanyurhi (2018). Processus du Budget Participatif au Sud-Kivu. Entre pratique démocratique et slogan idéologique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 172 pages (EAN : 9782343134055)

Géographie du Congo

Bonaventure Maurice Mengho (2018). Géographie du Congo.

Paris: L'Harmattan, 334 pages (EAN : 9782343123554)

Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

 

Adriana Allen; Liza Griffin  & Cassidy Johnson  (eds) (2017). Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan US (ISBN 978-1-137-47353-0)

Les Bidonvilles de Kinshasa

Francis Lelo Nzuzi (2018). Les Bidonvilles de Kinshasa (Nouvelle Version en Couleur). Paris:  Harmattan, 268 pages (EAN : 9782343133881) 

Description

Kinshasa continue à fasciner, tant elle est effrayante et attirante. Elle connaît une explosion urbaine depuis l'indépendance de la RDC en 1960 et sa métropolisation est à l'origine de la grande crise des logements sociaux. La ville continue à se bidonvilliser car ses nouveaux quartiers ne sont pas accessibles aux plus démunis. Est-ce que la ville va continuer à produire des bidonvilles surpeuplés et dangereux ? Ce livre propose de délocaliser les grands bidonvilles de la commune industrielle de RDC.

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Vol. 7(2), 2018

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Volume 7, Issue 2, April - June 2018
www.igi-global.com/ijepr
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Indexed by: SCOPUS and 12 other Indices

 

EDITORIAL PREFACE

Special Issue: Models and Strategies Toward Planning and Developing Smart Cities

Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, New York City, New York, United States), Sehl Mellouli (Universite Laval, Quebec City, Canada), Yigal Arens (ISI - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States)

 

Governance in Smart Cities: A Comparison of Practitioners' Perceptions and Prior Research

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar (Departmento de Economia Financiera y Contabilidad, University of Granada, Granada, Spain) 

From Citizens to Decision-Makers: A Natural Language Processing Approach in Citizens' Participation

Eya Boukchina (University of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia), Sehl Mellouli (Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada), Emna Menif (University of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia) 

Decision Models and Group Decision Support Systems for Emergency Management and City Resilience

Yumei Chen (School of Public Administration & Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China), Xiaoyi Zhao (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States), Eliot Rich (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States), Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes (University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States) 

Legal Logistics: A Framework to Unify Data Centric Services for Smart and Open Justice

Niels Netten (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Susan W. van den Braak (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Mortaza S. Bargh (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Sunil Choenni (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands), Frans L. Leeuw (Research and Documentation Center, Ministry of Security and Justice, The Hague, Netherlands) 

Smart Cities: From Silos to Cross-Border Approach

Ralf-Martin Soe (Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia) 

Developing Smart Regions: Proposal and Application of a Model for Island Territories

Felix Herrera Priano (University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain), Rafael Lopez Armas (Official College of Telecommunication Engineers, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain), Cristina Fajardo Guerra (University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain)

Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South. ‘The Nexus’ in an Era of Climate Change

 

 

Larry A. Swatuk & Corrine Cash  (eds.) (2018). Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South. ‘The Nexus’ in an Era of Climate Change.  Palgrave-Macmillan (ISBN 978-3-319-64023-5), 340 pp

Resilient Urban Development versus the Right to the City? Actors, Risks and Conflicts in the Light of International Agreements (SDG and NUA) – What can the academia contribute?

Resilient Urban Development versus the Right to the City? Actors, Risks and Conflicts in the Light of International Agreements (SDG and NUA) – What can the academia contribute?

7th and 8th June 2018 in Dortmund (Germany) 

Annual Conference of TRIALOG 2018

 

 

 

Kinshasa Planification & Aménagement

 

 

Francis Lelo Nzuzi (2011). Kinshasa Planification & Aménagement. Harmattan, 384 pages (ISBN : 978-2-296-56072-7) 

Description 

La ville de Kinshasa croît aujourd'hui anarchiquement. Sa croissance effrénée dévore tous les espaces agricoles urbains et périurbains. Son étalement démesuré, avec des gigantesques quartiers enclavés, est la proie d'énormes difficultés de transports. Sans organisation spatiale, son tissu urbain se densifie et son habitat se taudifie. Kinshasa est une ville à planifier et à aménager d'urgence. Voici des pistes pour son développement urbain durable.