In the course of a changed understanding of urban management and development cooperation, interest is increasingly being focused on networks. These are more and more recognised as appropriate modes of action and cooperation for the development of multidimensional and flexible actor systems. The author identifies four modes of action and cooperation of transnational networks of local communities by taking the Tanzania Urban Poor Federation (TUPF) as an example. The results provide guidance for the development of network structures bridging existing gaps in the field of urban governance in the...

Focusing on the coastal strip of Muscat Capital Area, Urban Oman traces urbanisation patterns in Oman over the last 50 years. This metropolitan region emerged out of nowhere, and is now home to the majority of the national and expatriate population of Oman. Urbanisation, and the socio-political, economic, and environmental aspects attached to it become an index of the radical spatial transformation of the Sultanate. This process, if managed well, also holds the key to sustainable urban development. Urban Oman invites geographers, planners, urban designers, architects, decision-makers and...