Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 737 g
Reihe: The Urban Book Series
Experiments in Place-Based Planning and Design
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 737 g
Reihe: The Urban Book Series
ISBN: 978-3-030-84905-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures.
The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.
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Five points for conceptualizing place-based approaches to African urban planning: An introduction.- Re-inscribing the communal: Towards decolonial urban futures.- Urbanisation without urbanity, modernity without modernisation. Recording “biographical trajectories of houses” in the Dendi rural region (North Benin).- Designing the diaspora: Expressing African heritage in historic Charleston.- Nature-based solutions for public green spaces in Sub-saharan Africa - Integrating place-making and green infrastructure.- Slums as opportunities? Spatial organisation, microeconomy and self-made infrastructures in freetown informal settlements.- Divergent practice: Architecture as a multidimensional impact tool in rural Lesotho.- Teaching design in a post-rainbow nation: A South African reflection on the limits and opportunities of design praxis.- Urban resilience and the question of food in Ethiopian urbanisation: The case of a small town in Ethiopia – Amdework.- Transnational urban spaces. Production locations of the global clothing industry in Ethiopia.- Learning from Selembao: An alternative approach to Kinshasa’s urbanization, using the concept of Mboka Bilanga.- Households’ and community initiatives toward city resilience: The case of flood resilience in Dar Es Salaam.- Motivations to co-produce water, hygiene and sanitation services in the peri-urban area of Kinshasa.- The government systems-trust-collective action Nexus: The case of Amdework.- Local solid waste management practices in the city of Zinder in Niger.