For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come.
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, envir...
This title presents a fresh contribution to climate change literature, as the city-scale has largely been neglected until now. The book focuses on the impacts of climate change in the rapidly evolving urban centre of the city of Cape Town, and looks in particular at the coastal dimensions of climate change.
This title presents a fresh contribution to climate change literature, as the city-scale has largely been neglected until now. The book focuses on the...
The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook engages the complex ways in which cities of the global south and the global north are rapidly shifting, the imperative for multiple genealogies of knowledge production, as well as a diversity of empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics.
The Handbook works towards a geographical realignment in urban studies, bringing into conversation a wide array of cities across the global...
The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global sout...
The facts of Africa s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a more overtly urban agenda. As a result, there is across the continent insufficient urgency directed to responding to the challenges and opportunities associated with the world s last major wave of...
The facts of Africa s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the conti...
With the signing of new sustainable development goals in 2016, marking a new phase of global development focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements, few countries offer a better testing ground than post-Apartheid South Africa. Since the coming to power of the African National Congress, the country has undergone a revolution in policy, driven by an urgent need to improve access to services for the country's black majority. Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, Building a CapableState asks what lessons can be learned from the South African experience....
With the signing of new sustainable development goals in 2016, marking a new phase of global development focused on ecologically and fiscally sustaina...
With the signing of new sustainable development goals in 2016, marking a new phase of global development focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements, few countries offer a better testing ground than post-Apartheid South Africa. Since the coming to power of the African National Congress, the country has undergone a revolution in policy, driven by an urgent need to improve access to services for the country's black majority. Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, Building a CapableState asks what lessons can be learned from the South African experience....
With the signing of new sustainable development goals in 2016, marking a new phase of global development focused on ecologically and fiscally sustaina...
