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From markets to ‘mal-kets’: Infrastructure modernisation or cultural erosion?
Recommended Citation Asante, L. A., Bandauko, E., & Amoah, M. (2026). From markets to ‘mal-kets’: Infrastructure modernisation or cultur...
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Wetland gentrification in African cities: Implications for urban governance, planning, and theory
While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African cities.
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Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities
Asante, L. A., Bonsu, B. A., & Helbrecht, I. (2025). Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities. Nature Cities, 2(4), 268–270. h...
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Africa’s Urban Revolution
Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse (Editors). 2014. Africa’s Urban Revolution. Zed Books (London & New York, x + 309 pp). ISBN: 978-1-78-03252...
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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.
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A Place to Call Home: A comparative study of the urban housing boom in Luanda and Nairobi
Despite their very different political and economic contexts, both Luanda and Nairobi have experienced housing booms and urban property bubbles over the last fifteen years.
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Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Master-planned, Holistically-designed Satellite Cities
Large-scale property developers have recently embarked on a far-reaching strategy designed to reshape the existing spatial configuration of many cities in Africa.
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System Change Africa: Evolution not revolution
Finding an African way of dealing with African urbanism: Complexity theory and systems thinking show how governments and people can work together to achieve something that neither could ever achieve alone.
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3D Print a House for Development (3D - H - 4D): Prototyping Climate Change Adaptation in African Urban Planning
The news that a Chinese company has successfully 3D printed ten houses in 24 hours rapidly, cheaply and with a bare-bones workforce offers a window into the future for sustainable development in Africa’s urban planning.
