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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
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ISBN : 926431430X
This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts.
Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789264579583
Africa is projected to have the fastest urban growth rate in the world: by 2050, Africa's cities will be home to an additional 950 million people. Much of this growth is taking place in small and medium-sized towns. Africa's urban transition offers great opportunities but it also poses significant challenges. Urban agglomerations are developing most often without the benefit of policies or investments able to meet these challenges. Urban planning and management are therefore key development issues. Understanding urbanisation, its drivers, dynamics and impacts is essential for designing targeted, inclusive and forward-looking policies at local, national and continental levels. This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts. Covering the entire distribution of the urban network - from small towns and secondary cities to large metropolitan regions - it develops more inclusive and targeted policy options that integrate local, national and regional scales of urban development in line with African realities.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
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ISBN : 9264770860
This report provides a new perspective on Africa’s urban economies that is unique in its breadth and level of detail. Based on data from more than 4 million individuals and firms in 2 600 cities across 34 countries, it presents compelling evidence that urbanisation contributes to better economic outcomes and higher living standards.
Author : Moriconi-Ebrard François
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-18
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ISBN : 9264252231
In 1950, there were only 152 urban agglomerations in West Africa. Since then, the number of agglomerations has increased to almost 2 000 town and cities which are home to 41% of the region’s total population.
Author : François Moriconi-Ebrard
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9789264252226
Since 1950, the number of urban agglomerations in West Africa increased from 152 to almost 2 000, and today towns and cities are home to 41% of the region's total population. Cities and their inhabitants are increasingly shaping West Africa's economic, political and social landscape. Yet there is little up-to-date data available for analysis and the formulation of development policy at the local, national and regional levels. Africapolis, a comprehensive and homogenous dataset on urbanisation, is a significant step towards closing this data gap. The 2015 update covers 17 West African countries spanning the period 1950 to 2010. Its original methodology combines demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery to provide population estimates and geolocation at the level of individual agglomerations. The morphological approach adopted by Africapolis helps identify territorial transformation processes which are at the core of West Africa's complex urbanisation dynamics and can be observed at several levels: metropolises, secondary cities, the merging of villages and the formation of conurbations. The identification of cities with fewer than 100 000 inhabitants is a major contribution of Africapolis - 90% of West Africa's cities, or a combined population of 45 million people, fall into this category - a figure which underscores the important role of small cities within the urban system. This edition also includes new measurements of urbanisation in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, constituting the most complete dataset on urbanisation dynamics in this country to date.
Author : OECD.
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789264961784
This report provides a new perspective on Africa's urban economies that is unique in its breadth and level of detail. Based on data from more than 4 million individuals and firms in 2 600 cities across 34 countries, it presents compelling evidence that urbanisation contributes to better economic outcomes and higher living standards.
Author : William John Hanna
Publisher : Chicago : Aldine, Atherton
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Monograph on urbanization and urban development in Africa - covers rural migration, urban sociology, living conditions, employment, interethnic relations, trade union functions, political problems, political participation, patterns of social change, future research, etc. Bibliography pp. 209 to 378 and statistical tables.
Author : William John Hanna
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1969
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ISBN :
Urban areas have been selected as the foci of the study because of their enormous importance to the countries in which they are located as well as to the international arena. Most urban areas of Black Africa have intensive contact with the non-African world; they provide environments which are favorable to change; and they are centers of culture, society, economy, and polity, and the hubs of the communications and transportation networks. Stylistically, the study relies heavily upon general statements concerning urban dynamics. The statements are based primarily upon a comprehensive survey of the English and French literature on urban areas and urbanization in Black Africa, as regards the patterns of urban growth, urban migration and commitment, impact of migration and town life upon the individual, urban conditions, urban ethnicity, nonethnic practices and perspectives, bases of political conflict, bases of political integration, and patterns of change. (Author).
Author : Oecd
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
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ISBN : 9789264915800
Author : Garth Andrew Myers
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789171066770
The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies. Cities in Africa are the sites of major political, economic and social innovation, and thus play a critical role in national politics, domestic economic growth and social development. They are also key platforms for interaction with the wider world and mediate between global and national contexts. Cities are variously positioned in global flows of resources, goods and ideas, and are shaped by varied historical trajectories and local cultures. The result is a great diversity of urban societies across the continent. Cities in Africa are not only growing rapidly but are also undergoing deep political, economic and social transformation. They are changing in ways that defy usual notions of urbanism. In their dazzling complexity, they challenge most theories of the urban. African cities represent major challenges as well as opportunities. Both need to be understood and addressed if a sustainable urban future is to be achieved on the continent. The Urban Cluster of the Nordic Africa Institute, through its research, seeks to contribute to an understanding of processes of urban change in Africa. This discussion paper by Professor Garth Myers, commissioned by the Urban Cluster, is a valuable contribution to shaping the research agenda on urban Africa.