Sustainable urban futures in Africa / edited by Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Michael Addaney.

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa: Understandings, Experiences and Trajectories / Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Michael Addaney -- The Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Challenge in Africa / -- Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, and Marita Basson -- Tradition meets Modernity: Creation of Sustainable Urban Spaces in Africa / -- Bernard Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang, Yakubu Zakaria and Prosper Issahaku Korah -- Local Activism and Climate Change Action in Africa: Protecting the Environment as a Social Justice Imperative / Luckymore Matenga -- Memories of Futures-Past and Visions of Future-Futures: An Architecture-to-Backcasting Metaphor Approach Towards Sustainable City Transitioning in Africa / Vipua Rukambe and Daniel Irurah -- Rethinking Stormwater Management in Sub-Saharan African Cities / Desmond Ofosu Anim, Eric Gaisie and Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah -- Monitoring Socio-ecological Relations of Urban Environments Using Land Use Land Cover Change: The Case of Ethekwini Municipality./ Bahle Mazeka, Kwanele Phinzi and Catherine Sutherland -- Informal Greenspaces in Peripheral Luanda, Angola: Benefits and Challenges / Euridice Lurdes Jorge Pedrosa, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko and Michihiro Kita -- River Rehabilitation Projects in Durban South Africa: Collaborative Spatial Expressions of Sustainability / Patrick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sylvia Hannan and Fanelesibonge Magwaza -- Regulation of Physical Development in Ghana: Systems and Practices / -- Michael Addaney, Florence Abugtane Avogo and Seth Opoku Mensah -- Spatial Expression of Climate Change in the Rapidly Urbanising Tamale Metropolis of Ghana / Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre -- Planning for sustainable metro express in Mauritius / Roopanand Mahadew, Michael Addaney and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah -- Situating Everyday Urban Struggles within the Context of the SDGs in an Informal Settlement in Accra, Ghana / Seth Asare Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah and Michihiro Kita -- Solid Waste Management in African Cities: Implications for Sustainable Development / Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Issaka Kanton Osumanu and Francis Diawuo -- Urban Informality and Flexible Land Tenure Arrangements in Namibia: Lessons and Insights / Kennedy Kariseb and Ivone Tjilale -- Shifting the Sanitation Landscape in Durban, South Africa / Catherine Sutherland and Anthony Odili -- Transforming Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya through Adaptive Spatial Planning and Tenure Regularisation / Collins Odote and Philip Olale.

"Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa. This book addresses topics such as challenges to spatial urban development: how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law and politics. Urban Africa has huge resource potential - both human and natural resources - that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa, and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance and other social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.