PLANNING PERSPECTIVES _ Special Issue: African Urban Planning Histories

 

PLANNING PERSPECTIVES

Special Issue: African Urban Planning Histories

Guest Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva

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Planning Perspectives - Special Issue on African Urban Planning Histories

Planning Perspectives
An International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment

Special Issue on African Urban Planning Histories

Table of Contents

Silva, Carlos Nunes (2026). Editorial – African Urban Planning Histories. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2687337

Harrison, P., & Todes, A. (2026). Planning’s promises: reflections on South African experiences in the African context. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2565375

 

Du Plessis, D. J. (2026). Spatial plan quality trends in post-apartheid South African municipalities. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2636017

 

Smode Cvitanović, M., & Čavlović, M. (2026). A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2630401

 

Matamanda, A. R., Matooane, L. S., Bhanye, J. I., Mocwagae, K., & Marais, L. (2026). Spatial planning legacies and unauthorized land occupations in South Africa’s urban peripheries. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2615139

 

Mazhar, N. (2026). Planning after the fact. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2652449

 

Abdelmalek, H. (2026). Between codification and custom: law 08/15, informality, and Islamic urban ethics in postcolonial Béchar. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2591066

 

Carabelli, R. (2026). Becoming dissonance: the path of recent urban heritage in Casablanca (Morocco). Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2606735

 

Troux, M., & Philifert, P. (2026). The renewal of historic urban areas in Morocco: challenges and limits on the new ‘housing at risk of collapse’ policy. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2629291

 

Williams, S., & Carolini, G. Y. (2026). Grounding infrastructure: community ownership of an international cooperation project in Kibera, Nairobi. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2613119

 

Studer, H. (2026). Water practices: communal water rights in Moroccan river oases in times of climate change. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2614301

 

Bishi, H. (2026). ‘Crony planning’: limits to the public-private partnership model in urban marketplace modernization in Lagos, Nigeria. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2591072

 

Hugo, M., Nel, V., & Bhanye, J. (2026). The quest for inclusive transit-oriented development in Mangaung, South Africa. Planning Perspectives, Vol. 41 (4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2631684

AAG 2027 _ AUPRN Session on 'African Urban and Regional Planning: Challenges and Innovations'

AAG 2027

AUPRN Session on 'African Urban and Regional Planning: Challenges and Innovations'

 New York, USA, 8 - 12 February 2027

 

Sponsored by

AAG Specialty Group - Urban Geography

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)

African Mansions on the Gold Coast. How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity

Courtnay Micots (2026). African Mansions on the Gold Coast. How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity. New York: Routledge, 225 pages

Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory

 

Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory

5th African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation

 

5th African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation

Thu, 18 Feb 2027 – Fri, 19 Feb 2027

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana

 Asante, L. and Helbrecht, I. (2026) Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3366/9781399531757.

Extra/ordinary Johannesburg. Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between

 

Lindsay Blair Howe (2026). Extra/ordinary Johannesburg. 

Centrality, periphery, and the spaces between.

London: UCL Press (Series: Urban Africa)

Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages inthe Global South

Cecilia Tacoli , Jytte Agergaard, Manja HoppeAndreasen, and Donald Brown (Eds.) (2025). Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages inthe Global South. Edward Elgar (ISBN: 9781802207705)

State of African Cities Report 2026

 

UN HABITAT (2026). State of African Cities Report 2026: Harnessing the Value of Urban Land for Socioeconomic Transformation in African cities. Nairobi: UN-HABITAT.

Progress made in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Africa (2022 - 2026)​

 

UN-HABITAT (2026). Progress made in the implementation

 of the New Urban Agenda in Africa (2022 - 2026)​

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

URBAN AFRICA BOOK SERIES

 

International African Institute

URBAN AFRICA BOOK SERIES

Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality

Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe,Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye and Caren Levy (Eds.) (2025). Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality. London: UCL Press. 

Open access (pdf): https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213182/1/Co-production-of-Knowledge-in-Action.pdf

Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. An anthropology of endings

 

Gunvor Jónsson (2024). Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. 

An anthropology of endings. London: UCL (Urban Series)

AAG 2026 - Session on "African Urban and Regional Planning"

AAG Annual Meeting, 17 - 21 March 2026

San Francisco, California, USA

AUPRN Session on 'African Urban and Regional Planning'

10th International Conference on Urban e-Planning

 

10th International Conference on Urban e-Planning

Lisbon, Portugal, 8 - 10 April 2028

IJEPR in Elsevier´ ScienceDirect platform

View the IJEPR on the ScienceDirect platform here

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By making the IJEPR easier to find and cite, its inclusion on ScienceDirect enhances discoverability, increases visibility, and supports stronger publishing outcomes.

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