African Cities Through Local Eyes: Experiments in Place-Based Planning and Design

African Cities Through Local Eyes: Experiments in Place-Based Planning and Design
ISBN-10
3030849066
ISBN-13
9783030849061
Category
Political Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2021-10-16
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Luisa Moretto, Giuseppe Faldi, Axel Fisher

Description

This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. 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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