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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Book Review of Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa

Silva, Carlos Nunes. "Book Review of Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa" International Journal of E-Planning Research, vol.13, no.1 2024: pp.1-2. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.345649

ECAS 2025

 

AUPRN - African Urban Planning Research Network

 

AUPRN - African Urban Planning Research Network