Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa - (2)
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Virtual 3
Type: Virtual Paper
Recorded: No
Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Africa Specialty Group, Development Geographies Specialty Group, Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Carlos Nunes Silva
Chair(s):
Carlos Nunes Silva,
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Description:
AAG Annual Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2025, Detroit, Mich., USA
Virtual Session
Session Title: Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa
Session Organizer & Chair: Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)
The Session explores recent developments and innovations in spatial planning in African countries. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:
o Spatial planning systems: structure, tools, practices
o Spatial planning and informal urbanization
o Spatial Planning and Social Housing
o Urban land policy and spatial planning
o Citizen participation in urban planning
o The role of local government in spatial planning
o Spatial planning in Metropolitan Areas
We are also interested in hearing about historical accounts of urban planning in Africa, in both colonial and post-colonial periods.
The Session comprises country and cross-country studies, as well as individual and comparative studies of cities in Africa. This can be either standard academic research or firsthand presentations by academics, planners or policy makers engaged in developing innovative modes of urban/spatial planning in African countries.
The Session is supported by the 'African Urban Planning Research Network' (AUPRN).
Abstracts by members of the 'African Urban Planning Research Network' (AUPRN), as well as from anyone with a relevant contribution in this field, are welcome. The Session is an opportunity for those interested in these issues to share their work and experiences.
It is expected the publication of a selection of the papers in a special issue to be published in the journal 'Planning Perspectives' (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rppe20). Papers will undergo the standard double blind peer review process of the journal.
Please send a 200 words abstract to Carlos Nunes Silva (cnsulisboa@gmail.com) no later than November 12. The AAG abstract submission deadline is November 14 (new AAG deadline).
(NOTE: 2nd Call - deadline for submission at AAG platform: 14 November)
Inquiries should be sent, by email, to:
Carlos Nunes Silva
Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: cnsulisboa@gmail.com
Web: https://sites.google.com/view/cns-ulisboa/home
AUPRN: https://sites.google.com/site/africanurbanplanning/auprn---african-urban-planning-research-network
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Hakeem Bishi, Concordia University |
The Limits of Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Marketplace Modernization: Insights from Lagos |
Noor Mazhar, University of Cambridge |
Planning after the fact: the recognition, regularisation and regulation of small-scale rental in Cape Town |
Mojca Smode Cvitanovic, University of Zagreb |
Modalities of feedback - West Africa as a springboard for UN funded projects in socialist Yugoslavia |
RAYNALD BALLO |
Do digital shared mobility platforms in West Africa really need public actors ? |
Elia Axinia Machado, Lehman College, CUNY |
Is there a relationship between conflict events and rainfall in Ethiopia? The importance of geo-precision and unit of analysis |
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Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa - (2)
Description
Type: Virtual Paper
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Virtual 3
Contact the Primary Organizer
Carlos Nunes Silva
cnsulisboa@gmail.com
Session sponsored by: