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Journal articles on the topic "Urbanism in Africa"
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Sinclair, Paul J. J. "Towards an Understanding of Spatiotemporal Dynamics at Great Zimbabwe." Acta Archaeologica 90, no. 1 (2019): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/16000390-09001007.
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In 1987 archaeologists from nine African countries and colleagues from Sweden began a co-operation programme to study urbanism in eastern and southern Africa under the auspices of The Urban Origins programme. The programme involved 22 parallel field projects throughout the West Indian Ocean region and the southern Africa interior. The article presents a compilation of diverse material on Great Zimbabwe that has been scattered in different fora. The research was directed by an overall approach that investigations in urban archaeology in Africa must be at the same scale that people lived in the past. The results briefly presented here show the potential of multivariate assessments of the spatial distributions of large-scale urban sites in Africa.
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Sinclair, Paul J. J. "Towards an Understanding of Spatiotemporal Dynamics at Great Zimbabwe." Acta Archaeologica 90, no. 1 (2019): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/16000390-09001007.
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In 1987 archaeologists from nine African countries and colleagues from Sweden began a co-operation programme to study urbanism in eastern and southern Africa under the auspices of The Urban Origins programme. The programme involved 22 parallel field projects throughout the West Indian Ocean region and the southern Africa interior. The article presents a compilation of diverse material on Great Zimbabwe that has been scattered in different fora. The research was directed by an overall approach that investigations in urban archaeology in Africa must be at the same scale that people lived in the past. The results briefly presented here show the potential of multivariate assessments of the spatial distributions of large-scale urban sites in Africa.
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Soi, Isabella, and Paul Nugent. "Peripheral Urbanism in Africa: Border Towns and Twin Towns in Africa." Journal of Borderlands Studies 32, no. 4 (2017): 535–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2016.1196601.
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Agergaard, Jytte, Susanne Kirkegaard, and Torben Birch-Thomsen. "Between Village and Town: Small-Town Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (2021): 1417. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031417.
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In the next twenty years, urban populations in Africa are expected to double, while urban land cover could triple. An often-overlooked dimension of this urban transformation is the growth of small towns and medium-sized cities. In this paper, we explore the ways in which small towns are straddling rural and urban life, and consider how insights into this in-betweenness can contribute to our understanding of Africa’s urban transformation. In particular, we examine the ways in which urbanism is produced and expressed in places where urban living is emerging but the administrative label for such locations is still ‘village’. For this purpose, we draw on case-study material from two small towns in Tanzania, comprising both qualitative and quantitative data, including analyses of photographs and maps collected in 2010–2018. First, we explore the dwindling role of agriculture and the importance of farming, businesses and services for the diversification of livelihoods. However, income diversification varies substantially among population groups, depending on economic and migrant status, gender, and age. Second, we show the ways in which institutions, buildings, and transport infrastructure display the material dimensions of urbanism, and how urbanism is planned and aspired to. Third, we describe how well-established middle-aged households, independent women (some of whom are mothers), and young people, mostly living in single-person households, explain their visions and values of the ways in which urbanism is expressed in small towns. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of this urban life-in-becoming of small towns for urban planning, emphasizing the importance of the development of inclusive local governance. Ultimately, we argue that our study establishes an important starting point for further explorations of the role of the simultaneous production and expression of urbanism in small town urbanization.
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Rifkind, David. "Gondar." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 4 (2011): 492–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.4.492.
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Gondar, Ethiopia, expanded dramatically in the late 1930s as a colonial administrative center for Italian East Africa. David Rifkind shows how urban design and architecture functioned in Gondar between 1936 and 1941 as key tools of Italian colonial policy. Italian urbanism throughout the fascist era illustrates the disquieting compatibility of progressive planning and authoritarian politics, and in Gondar modern urban design was used to define imperial identity for both Italian settlers and African colonial subjects. Gondar: Architecture and Urbanism for Italy's Fascist Empire documents the striking sensitivity to topography and historical preservation that Italian designers brought to their colonial mission as well as the skill with which they adapted to the material and political challenges of working in Italy's overseas dominions.
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Chirikure, Shadreck. "Shades of Urbanism(s) and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial Africa: Towards Afro-Centred Interventions." Journal of Urban Archaeology 1 (January 2020): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.jua.5.120909.
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de Beer, Stephan. "Urban Africa 2050: Imagining Theological Education/Formation for Flourishing African Cities." International Bulletin of Mission Research 46, no. 2 (2022): 212–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393211006398.
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Africa’s staggering rate of urbanization and the silence of religion or theology in response form the backdrop of this article. Africa’s urban futures, up through 2050, are considered through the lenses of fifteen African cities and theological institutions in these cities. I employ a set of research questions, seeking to contribute theologically to a body of knowledge known as African urbanism. The article imagines theological education/formation in response to Africa’s urban explosion through exploring flourishing cities as an organizing imaginary, but also through outlining concrete embodiments and prospects for reimagining theological education/formation in African cities.
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Barthel, Pierre-Arnaud. "Morocco in the era of eco-urbanism." Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 5, no. 3 (2016): 272–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-05-2014-0033.
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Purpose Environmental urbanism is reflected for the last years in the design of urban megaprojects. This trend is spreading in Morocco to the point that it is considered as the leading player in this emerging field across North Africa. The purpose of this paper is to advance the twofold hypothesis that these specific urban projects are on the one hand tools of capitalism and on the other hand leverage for clear change in the global management project process compared to non-eco-projects. In addition to these two hypotheses, the lack of environmental regulations at the national level and the copy and paste of international standards are serious limits of the approach at the local scale. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on an in-depth case study (Benguérir “green town”) and interviews conducted from 2012 to 2014, the paper will aim to build up a critical and operational research on emerging eco-megaprojects in Morocco. Findings The paper provides empirical insights and confirms the connection between capitalistic megaprojects and environmental urbanism in Morocco. However, it partially rejects the hypothesis that this new trend opens up dramatic change in the making of projects. This study case points sharp limitations and mismatches between virtuous environmentalism and reality on the ground: the problem of adjusting projects to urban policies, a lack of coordination and trust between local officials and developers, excessive reliance on standards and labels, conformity of developers with the international doxa of urban sustainability. However, eco-urbanism can give birth to better integrated and sustainable projects than “mainstream” urbanism when strongly related to local financial, technical and economic capacities of end users and stakeholders in North Africa. Research limitations/implications Because of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalizability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further. Practical implications Recommandations are proposed to improve principles in eco-urbanism in Morocco and beyond in North Africa. Social implications The skills of residents are a source of education to be tapped into and developed further for eco-projects. Originality/value This paper provides an “in situ” analysis of the preparation and implementation of eco-projects in Africa and the national and local adaptations of the internationally promoted eco-city.
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Piscitelli, Paola. "Translocal urbanism in Southern Africa: between Johannesburg and Maputo." Czech Journal of Social Sciences, Business and Economics 4, no. 4 (2015): 6–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24984/cjssbe.2015.4.4.1.
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Pollio, Andrea. "Making the silicon cape of Africa: Tales, theories and the narration of startup urbanism." Urban Studies 57, no. 13 (2020): 2715–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019884275.
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Silicon alleys, hills, peaks, beaches, savannahs, islands, lagoons and gulfs have mushroomed across cities of all continents, in the hope of fuelling profitable, innovative startup hubs. These Silicon-Valley replicas deploy economic theories, managerial fads, success stories and best practices that are metonymically linked to Northern California, but they also draw upon local arrangements of heterogeneous constituents: policy experts, entrepreneurs, reports, IT infrastructures, universities, coworking spaces, networking protocols and so forth. The making of one such ecosystem, Cape Town’s so-called ‘silicon cape’, is the topic of this article, which, however, does not try to uncover the specific economic and geographic factors of tech clustering. Rather, it addresses some of the narrative discourses that have framed Cape Town as the entrepreneurial capital of South Africa and Africa at large. It shows how these narrative praxes are both reflexive and ontological: they at once work as metatheories of entrepreneurial innovation in an African city and lay the groundwork for its very possibility. Via an ethnographic engagement of these textual discourses in the making, this article charts the uneasy relationship between technocapitalism and economic development in a city scarred by its colonial past and its racialised inequalities. In doing so, it shows how the discursive making of the silicon cape of Africa mobilised multiple economic sentiments, weaving together the search for profitable technology-based economies and the demand for social justice in a city of the Global South.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urbanism in Africa"
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Sibanda, Phaxenda Maxwell. "Informal urbanism : an appraisal of socio-legal and economic dynamics in East London, South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5763.
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Many cities and towns in the Global South continue to experience the growth of the informal sector. There are a number of reasons which explain the growth of the informal sector. These include formal sector retrenchments, shortage of jobs in the formal sector and lack of skills. Street vendors are the most visible traders in the informal sector as compared to other kind of traders. In many cities, the spaces in which vendors conduct their trading is not allocated to them legally as they are seen as a nuisance or obstruction to commerce and the free flow of traffic. Against this background, this study examines the contestation for vending in the East London Central Business District (CBD) Eastern Cape, South Africa. It specifically explores social processes and vendor decision making when it comes to choosing (or claiming) a particular vending space, the legal instruments (by-laws) that either promote or constrain informal trading activities. Furthermore, it investigates the extent to which street vending contributes to the traders‟ income generation and sustainable livelihoods. This study uses a qualitative research design. Purposive sampling was used to select thirty informal traders. In-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with all thirty respondents In addition to the thirty respondents, five key informants were interviewed. The study found that street vending plays a major role in providing BCMM people with livelihood opportunities. Trading space in the CBD is strictly competitive and the spaces they acquire are too small for their businesses to expand to another level. Vendors face a lot of challenges but at the epitome of their challenges is the vending by- laws which the vendors view as a major constraint when it comes to operating smoothly in the streets. The study suggested that vending polices and by- laws be reviewed in order to derive a better socio- economic and functional environment for vendors.
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Louw, Michael Paul. "The new urbanism and new ruralism frameworks as potential tools for sustainable rural development in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20187.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sustainable rural development is currently one of the priority items for the South
African government. Agricultural advancement, high rates of unemployment,
widespread poverty, a lack of access to employment opportunities, transport,
education and other services, skewed land ownership patterns that are partly due to
Apartheid policies, a lack of access to land and numerous social and health‐related
issues are just some of the problems that rural communities are currently faced with.
This study focuses mainly on the spatial planning aspects of rural development and it
explores the possibilities of adaptating strategies from the New Urbanism and New
Ruralism movements, together with a number of tools typically associated with
sustainable rural development, for use in the South African context.
Through the study of available literature on the subject, personal interviews and
practical experience, a range of strategies have been investigated and a selected
number have been identified that may be applicable to the local context. A number
of case studies are assessed, which include a new model being implemented at
Crossways Farm Village in the Eastern Cape which combines elements from the
above‐mentioned approaches. From some of the results achieved to date it seems
that the implementation of these particular spatial planning models, combined with
models like the biosphere concept that focuses on biodiversity, together with a
range of additional socio‐economic strategies, may contribute to the promotion of
sustainable rural development in South Africa. It is hoped that this study shows the
potential and challenges of these spatial planning models as a tool for sustainable
rural development, and that it may lead to further study on the subject.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Volhoubare landelike ontwikkeling is tans een van die prioriteitsitems vir die Suid‐
Afrikaanse regering. Landboukundige vooruitgang, hoë vlakke van werkloosheid, wyd
verspreide armoede, ‘n tekort aan toegang tot werksgeleenthede, vervoer,
onderwys en ander dienste, verwronge patrone van grondbesit wat deels toegeskryf
kan word aan Apartheidsbeleide, ‘n tekort aan toegang tot grond en talle sosiale‐ en
gesondheidskwessies is net ‘n paar van die probleme waarmee landelike
gemeenskappe tans gekonfronteer is. Hierdie studie fokus hoofsaaklik op die
ruimtelike beplanningsaspekte van landelike ontwikkeling en dit ondersoek die
moontlikhede om strategië van die New Urbanism en New Ruralism bewegings,
tesame met ‘n aantal werktuie wat tipies met volhoubare landelike ontwikkeling
geassosieër word, te gebruik in die Suid‐Afrikaanse konteks.
Deur die studie van die beskikbare literatuur oor die onderwerp, persoonlike
onderhoude en praktiese ondervinding, word ‘n reeks strategië ondersoek en ‘n
uitgekose aantal word geidentifiseer wat moontlik van toepassing kan wees op die
plaaslike konteks. Daar word verwys na ‘n aantal gevallestudies, wat ook ‘n nuwe
model insluit wat tans op Crossways Farm Village in die Oos‐Kaap geimplementeer
word, wat elemente van die bogenoemde benaderings kombineer. Van sommige van
die resultate wat tot op hede verkry is, blyk dit dat die implementering van hierdie
spesifieke ruimtelike beplanningsmodelle, gekombineer met modelle soos die
biosfeer konsep wat fokus op biodiversiteit, tesame met ‘n reeks addisionele sosioekonomiese
strategië, moontlik mag bydra tot die bevordering van volhoubare
landelike ontwikkeling in Suid‐Afrika. Daar word gehoop dat hierdie studie die
potensiaal en die uitdagings wys van hierdie ruimtelike beplanningsmodelle as ‘n
werktuig vir volhoubare landelike ontwikkeling en dat dit mag lei tot verdere studie
oor die onderwerp.
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McDonald, Stefanus Albertus Myburgh. "Risk in mixed-use property development in South Africa : a case study of Melrose Arch." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25375.
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Mixed-use development is a growing trend that is transforming the real estate landscape and is defined as a real estate project with planned integration of some combination of retail, office, residential, hotel, recreation or other functions that are pedestrian-oriented, limit urban sprawl and have architectural expression. Without a tested framework to predict and mitigate risk in a development, it is difficult for investors and property developers to make accurate business decisions. The aim of the research was to explore the risks associated with a prominent mixed-use development and how these risks may be mitigated from a business perspective. From the existing literature, a framework was constructed of elements that would impact on the risk profile of a mixed-use development. Due to the limited amount of available literature, a qualitative and exploratory research design was employed. Due to its prominence and distinctiveness, Melrose Arch in Johannesburg was selected as a case study. A process of triangulation was used between observations, documentation and in-depth, open-ended interviews with the key role players in the development of Melrose Arch. The research indicates that Melrose Arch is riskier than traditional property development. Mixed-use development is an ongoing concern that requires ongoing strategic alignment and general management expertise. Findings from the research contributed to construct a comprehensive framework for risk mitigation in the mixed-use development process. Copyright<br>Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.<br>Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)<br>unrestricted
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Du, Plessis Linet. "The ideological construction of new urbanism in Melrose Arch a critical analysis/." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08202008-141836.
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Corbett, David Ian Bedford. "Alternative forms of citymaking: Insights and implications from South Africa and Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208153/1/David%20Ian%20Bedford_Corbett_Thesis.pdf.
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This study employed a comparative urbanism methodology to explore the interrelationship between formal approaches to urban governance and urban informality in Logan, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa. Through in-depth interviews, observations and a co-design workshop, the study investigates points of disconnection in the margins and ties these to issues of power, inclusion and the notion of a 'good' city. It proposes avenues for conducting comparative urban research across Global North and South cities. The thesis furthers knowledge of co-productive research with vulnerable participants, articulates the role of intermediaries in inclusive alternative citymaking, and challenges negative assumptions of urban informality.
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Rumsha, Siphamandla. "Agricultural urbanism and urban agriculture : exploring the possible role of University of Fort Hare and Buffalo City Municipality in supporting small-scale urban farming in East London, South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5072.
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This study investigates the impact of urban agriculture in the city of East London as well as the possibility of adopting agricultural urbanism as an urban farming model to bolster food security. The study goes further to understand the role that could be played by University of Fort Hare and Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in capacitating small scale urban farmers in the city of East London. Unemployment and food insecurity are the key challenges that are affecting many families in South Africa, including urban dwellers. The main objective of this study therefore is to investigate the contributions of urban farming in securing food security and livelihoods in East London. This study adopted a mixed methods research approach, where both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to harvest data. Statistical analysis (descriptive) was then used to analyse quantitative data. Thematic approach used to analyse qualitative data. The study shows that urban farming plays an important role in the livelihoods of urban dwellers. However, the sector still faces various challenges such as lack of recognition by authorities. The study also revealed that the city of East London has potential to establish agricultural urbanism as it has most of the essential aspects that are necessary to establish it. The study recommends strengthening of the partnership between University of Fort Hare, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and small scale urban farmers in East London.
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Alaoui, Aziz Bouchra. "La knowledge city : un modèle pour la ville du futur en Afrique ? L'expérience du Maroc." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL142.
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En Afrique, malgré des ressources naturelles abondantes et une population jeune et créative, le continent peine à impulser une croissance durable. Les cicatrices laissées par des décennies de colonisation, aggravées par des conflits internes, continuent de freiner ce décollage tant espéré. Alors que les aides internationales et les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté n'ont pas encore réussi à transformer en profondeur les fondements économiques du continent, l'avènement des nouvelles technologies offre à l'Afrique une opportunité unique : celle de réaliser un saut qualitatif en misant sur l'économie de la connaissance. Pour réussir cette transition, il est essentiel de créer des territoires de la connaissance, des espaces propices à l'innovation. Cette thèse explore la capacité du continent à adopter ce modèle, en prenant comme exemple le Maroc, qui pourrait inspirer d'autres nations africaines vers un développement durable basé sur le savoir. Elle interroge ainsi en profondeur les concepts d'économie de la connaissance et de knowledge cities, afin d'examiner leur potentiel à catalyser une transformation radicale du continent africain en véritable pôle d'innovation et de savoir<br>In Africa, despite abundant natural resources and a young, creative population, the continent continues to struggle to spark sustainable growth. The scars left by decades of colonization, compounded by internal conflicts, still hinder the much-anticipated takeoff. International aid and poverty alleviation programs have yet to deeply transform the economic foundations of the continent. However, the advent of new technologies offers Africa a unique opportunity to make a qualitative leap by focusing on the knowledge economy. To achieve this transition, it is essential to create "knowledge territories", spaces conducive to innovation. This thesis explores the continent's capacity to adopt this model, using Morocco as a case study, which could inspire other African nations toward sustainable development based on knowledge. It deeply examines the concepts of the knowledge economy and "knowledge cities," evaluating their potential to catalyze a radical transformation of the African continent into a true hub of innovation and knowledge
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Steyn, G. "Types and typologies of African urbanism." South African Journal of Art History, 2007. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000815.
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This article responds to the rapid urbanisation of sub-Saharan Africa. It laments the loss and deterioration
of its pre-colonial urban artefacts due to neglect and even war, and pleads for their conservation
and the recognition of relevant characteristics as contemporary urban solutions. Part one outlines the
conceptual framework and highlights four theoretical considerations pertaining to definitions, preconceptions,
methodology and sources of information. Part two contextualises the origins and nature
of African urbanism with a brief historical perspective. Part three analyses the morphology of urban
space, while part four concludes by discussing some seemingly intrinsic urban characteristics and their
compatibility with current urban theories.
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Hugo, Esthie. "Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20691.
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This project surveys representations of the African city in contemporary Nigerian and South African narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes's Nineveh (2011), which takes as its setting contemporary Cape Town; Lagoon (2014) by American-Nigerian author Nnedi Okorafor, who sets her tale in present-day Lagos; and Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes, another South African author who locates her narrative in a near-future version of Johannesburg. I find that these fictions are bound by a shared investment in mobilising the apparatus of the Gothic genre to provide readers with a unique imagining of contemporary African urbanity. I argue that the Gothic urbanism which these texts unfold enables the ascendance of generative, anti-dualist modes of reading the contemporary African city that are simultaneously real and imagined, old and new, global and local, dark and light - modes that perform as much a discourse of the past as a dialogue on the future. The study concludes by making some reflections on the future-visions that these Gothic urban-texts elicit, imaginings that I argue engender useful reflection on the relationship between culture and environment, and thus prompt the contemporary reader to consider the global future - and, as such, situate Africa at the forefront of planetary discourse. I suggest that Nineveh, Lagoon and Zoo City produce not simply a Gothic envisioning of Africa's metropolitan centres, but also a budding Gothic aesthetic of the African Anthropocene. In contrast to the 1980's tradition of Gothic writing in Africa, these novels are opening up into the twenty-first century to reflect on the future of the African city - but also on the futures that lie beyond the urban, beyond culture, beyond the human.
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Havlík, Darina. "ZOO Park Dvůr Králové - generel." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215790.
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The proposal project is designing the development plan of the ZOO in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, as has designed a new exhibition of new lions, hyenas, birds of prey, the African desert and the object of refreshments for visitors. Architectural study addresses the design of objects - pavilions exposure for lions, hyenas, a pavilion with an aviary for birds of prey - bird world, the African pavilion terrarium desert and finally building with a cafe and toilets for the visitors of the ZOO. The proposed approach also runs the individual pavilions, then runs for the lions and hyenas and near runs in the African desert ungulates and seasonal runs. The proposed solution recognizes the zoo premises as a place for keeping large animal species composition, education of visitors, as the meeting place of rest and relaxation. The solution takes into account the complex relationships and interactions between exposures in a given area, not only in terms of architectural and aesthetic approach to the complex, but also in terms of operating and zoological.The zoo is a park with specific exposure to live with a balanced human rights - a visitor to one side and kept the animal on the other. The proposed solution to the Zoo is sensitive to the surrounding landscape, the existing urban and architectural design and space requirements for any award. From an operational point of view, the proposal accepted by all the requirements of the future. Areas and facilities for public service facilities, paddocks and animal quarters are each precisely defined and strictly separated geographically and operationally. Are the optimal conditions for the movement of animals between quarters and corral. The proposed solution is very rich in variety of areas, which in addition to the versatility of targeted animals, reflected in the richness of flora and fauna and thus contributing to environmentally high value sites. All spaces is a common need a sufficient level of daylight and direct sunlight. The entire area surrounding the exposure and access roads are designed to completely wheelchair accessible and accessible for persons with reduced mobility. The proposed solution to a sensitive development of existing space is achieved by a better, easier and easier availability. Term solutions proposed pavilions, yards and access roads is based on the themes of African villages. Small scale architectural and mutual spatial composition of individual materials of the new pavilions interconnected units reflects the typical mass breakdown of urban structures in the original locations of breeding species. Pavilions and animal quarters, and appropriately use the added space in the area of ??the zoo and complete the overall character of the place in the context of the current solution to urban zoo.
Books on the topic "Urbanism in Africa"
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Jenkins, Paul. Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137380173.
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University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities, ed. Rogue urbanism: Emergent African cities. Jacana, 2013.
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Sears, Gareth Martyn. Late Roman North African urbanism: 'decline, continuity and transformation'. University of Birmingham, 2003.
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Tsarwe, Stanley, and Sarah Chiumbu, eds. Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19417-7.
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Thurstan, Shaw, ed. The archaeology of Africa: Food, metals and towns. Routledge, 1995.
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Njoh, Ambe J. Planning power: Social control and planning in colonial Africa. UCL Press, 2007.
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Njoh, Ambe J. PLANNING IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: THE STATE, TOWN PLANNING AND SOCIETY IN CAMEROON. ASHGATE, 2003.
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David, Simon. Cities, capital and development: African cities in the world economy. Belhaven Press, 1992.
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Marr, Stephen, and Patience Mususa. DIY Urbanism in Africa. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350237537.
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Across Africa, protracted economic crises and enduring class stratification have impacted a majority of the continent’s city-dwellers, meaning that urban residents are forced to draw on their own resources and skills, often adopting experimental approaches to sustaining access to services and livelihoods. This 'do-it-yourself' urbanism has generally been appraised through a developmental lens, in which case studies are understood in isolation. In this book, a comparative and cross-regional approach seeks to analyze this phenomenon across the continent, and to gain an understanding of the dynamics of DIY urbanism in a range of cities where urban residents experience economic distress and marginalization. Does DIY urbanism present a form of resistance, or merely an acquiescence, to the inequalities that make it necessary? And what prospect is there for a radical politics to come out of this grassroots organization, to make cities work better for their poorest, and most marginalised, residents?
Book chapters on the topic "Urbanism in Africa"
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Coyle, Stephen. "Lean Urbanism in Central Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90131-2_12.
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Njoh, Ambe J. "French Urbanism in North Africa." In French Urbanism in Foreign Lands. Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25298-8_7.
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Myers, Garth. "The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism." In Africa and Urban Anthropology. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003003533-16.
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Njoh, Ambe J. "French Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa." In French Urbanism in Foreign Lands. Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25298-8_8.
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Simone, AbdouMaliq. "South African Urbanism: Between the Modern and the Refugee Camp." In Cities in Contemporary Africa. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230603349_11.
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Mistry, Anjali, and Manfred Spocter. "Production of Edibles and Use of Garden Waste in Domestic Gardens of a Middle-Class Suburb in Cape Town, South Africa." In Exploring Food and Urbanism. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003172499-6.
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Bakare, Hakeem, Stuart Denoon Stevens, and Lorena Melgaço. "Informality and Temporary Urbanism as Defiance: Tales of the Everyday Life and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa." In Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61753-0_5.
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Kaluwa, Monalissa, Chipo Mutonhodza, and Leonard Chitongo. "Smart Growth and New Urbanism, a Sustainable Approach towards Urban Redevelopment." In Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa. CRC Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003221791-7.
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Sihlongonyane, Mfaniseni. "Ideologies, discourses and vectors of African urbanism in the making of South African cities." In The Contested Idea of South Africa. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429340857-10.
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Jenkins, Paul. "The Aims and Objectives of the Book." In Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137380173_1.
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VIVIERS, JAKO, SELNA G. CORNELIUS, and ELIZELLE J. CILLIERS. "CONSIDERING NEW URBANISM, NEW RURALISM AND GREEN URBANISM IN RESPONSE TO MULTIFUNCTIONALITY: THE CASE OF VERKYKERSKOP, SOUTH AFRICA." In SUSTAINABLE CITY 2017. WIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sc170071.
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Rahmani, Soumia, Dalel Kaoula, and Mohamed Hamdy. "Energy Efficiency Benchmarking: Review of Key Policies, Agencies, Program Developments in North Africa, Case of Algeria." In 5th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 11-13 May 2022. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2022en0225.
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Moulis, Antony. "Architecture in Translation: Le Corbusier’s influence in Australia." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.752.
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Abstract: While there is an abundance of commentary and criticism on Le Corbusier’s effect upon architecture and planning globally – in Europe, Northern Africa, the Americas and the Indian sub-continent – there is very little dealing with other contexts such as Australia. The paper will offer a first appraisal of Le Corbusier’s relationship with Australia, providing example of the significant international reach of his ideas to places he was never to set foot. It draws attention to Le Corbusier's contacts with architects who practiced in Australia and little known instances of his connections - his drawing of the City of Adelaide plan (1950) and his commission for art at Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House (1958). The paper also considers the ways that Le Corbusier’s work underwent translation into Australian architecture and urbanism in the mid to late 20th century through the influence his work exerted on others, identifying further possibilities for research on the topic. Keywords: Le Corbusier; post-war architecture; international modernism; Australian architecture, 20th century architecture. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.752
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Valentim, Davi Dornelles Rodrigues de Souza, and Juliana Melo Pereira. "NEGRITANDO O PATRIMÔNIO BRASILEIRO: OS DESAFIOS DO RECONHECIMENTO DA HERANÇA CULTURAL AFRICANA." In 18º SHCU - Seminário de História da Cidade e do Urbanismo. Even3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.29327/18-shcu-seminario-historia-cidade-urbanismo.879395.
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Valadares, Daniel Amazonas dos Santos, Clara Luiza Miranda, and Mariah Santos Barcellos. "A TRAVESSIA DAS RELIGIÕES DE MATRIZ AFRICANA, O TERREIRO E O EWÉ: UMA CRÍTICA AO PAISAGISMO OCIDENTAL." In 18º SHCU - Seminário de História da Cidade e do Urbanismo. Even3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.29327/18-shcu-seminario-historia-cidade-urbanismo.973311.
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Sproull, Robert. "Resilience through Social Infrastructure." In 2022 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.22.19.
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The Peacock Tract in Montgomery, Alabama is one of Montgomery, Alabama’s first African-American neighborhoods. Originally a plantation where enslaved people worked the land, the rise of this community included the city’s first African-American churches which helped change the course of American history by becoming one of Montgomery’s centers of civil rights activity. The churches of the Peacock Tract were the places that witnessed the election of Martin Luther King as leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the vote to extend the city bus boycott, and the final rest stop on the Selma to Montgomery March.Later, the community was the site of racially and politically motivated retributive urbanism when the city’s African-American social infrastructure was intentionally targeted by Interstates. The effects of this massive disruption are still evident. The interstates quartered the community and severed it from the rest of the city, and at first look, this retaliatory urban maneuver may appear successful. However, the Peacock Tract has endured despite the immense piece of critical infrastructure positioned to intentionally disrupt it.This paper proposes that due to the strength and history of the enduring pieces of social infrastructure, specifically the historic churches, the area has yet to be overridden or abandoned, and supports the argument that the resilience of a place is inextricably tied to the strength of the social infrastructure within it. The paper highlights several interdisciplinary interventions proposed by undergraduate environmental design students. It presents a design research course where students are asked to consider infrastructure as an agent of connection, inclusion, or restoration. as opposed to division. Students worked with community partners to develop proposals providing a suture, between the quadrants left in the interstate’s aftermath. While each project proposes a unique programmatic solution, the intersection of social and critical infrastructure in pursuit of resilience is present throughout.
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Sarr, Bilal, Luca Mattei, and Yaiza Hernández Casas. "Asentamientos fortificados en el Rif Oriental (siglos VIII-XV). Nuevos datos sobre Ghassasa y Tazouda (Nador, Marruecos)." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11519.
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Fortified settlements in Eastern Rif (eighth-fifteenth centuries): new data on Ghassasa and Tazouda (Nador, Morocco)The present paper attempts to aproximate to the archaeological research of two of the most relevants fortified settlements of the Medieval Rif (north of Morocco), Ghassasa and Tazouda. Reviewing the written sources –Ibn Ḥawqal, al-Bakrī, al-Idrīsī, Ibn Ḥayyān, al-Bādisī, etc.– and comparing the data they offer with the archaeological records of surface, we report here the recent hypothesis deduced from the analysis of their emerging structures and pottery, trying to trace some new information of the fortification process in the Rif since Early Medieval centuries to the fifteenth century and to detect the development of the interrelations and influences by the commercial exchanges between twice Mediterranean coasts: North African and al-Andalus. So, we offer the planimetry of both settlements, Ghassasa and Tazouda, which haven´t been documented before, and also some typologies of Magrib’s medieval pottery founded there, contributing with an original research to the study of medieval urbanism in Magrib al-Aqṣā and the role that they take on the trade routes existing between Bilād al-Sūdān, to Siŷilmāsa, and al-Andalus.
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Lezzerini, Luca. "Food sustainability of gigantic cities." In International Conference of Tirana Planning Week. POLIS University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.37199/c41000712.
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Due to strong urbanism flow, many cities are continuously growing trending to become gigantic cities. Gigantic means that either the city has a huge number of inhabitants and commuters, or it contains a large part of the whole population of the country and the rest of the territory is moving towards a low-density population. In both cases, food sustainability is one of the most concerning challenges that must be addressed. After a deep literature review, the paper analyzes the main elements in food supply to gigantic cities. Then, possible risks are identified and quantified in a general case, ranking them according to a priority metric (also defined in the research). Risks are approached with solutions based on urban and territorial planning, including the selection of a socio-economical model to be used as a reference and tools to ensure food supply. In the paper, different possible planning strategies derived from African case studies are proposed and evaluated in their application to Tiranë (a city containing a large portion of the whole population) and to other gigantic (in the sense of a very large number of inhabitants and commuters) cities in the world. Results demonstrate that specific planning strategies should be activated at both urban and regional levels to provide local food autonomy, including production, processing, storage and transportation. The research is a portion of wider research about smart cities’ urban planning strategies and although it is limited to regions with good climate and fertile neighbouring, its principles can be also extended to more challenging cases from both climate and land quality. The research is also a starting point to define a resilient planning strategy to support, in the long period, the management of the impact of climate change on the food provisioning for very big cities. The paper also proposes a form of cooperative bond (the rural socio-economic model) in the countryside to increase productivity and avoid excessive urbanism, easing the presence of workers in the farms that are supposed to supply the city. The paper considers only normal operational conditions and does not keep into account special conditions like famine, flooding, war and similar. Although these conditions are not considered, the proposed methodology is still applicable to these cases and will be developed in further research.
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Hogrefe, Jeffrey, and Scott Ruff. "Connecting to the Archive: Counter-gentrification in Central Brooklyn." In 110th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.110.78.
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Weeksville was founded in 1838 by formerly enslaved persons and freedmen who sought to create a self-sustaining utopian community in Brooklyn, New York. Distinguished by its urbanity, size, and relative physical and economic stability, the community provided sanctuary for self-emancipated persons from Southern slave plantations, and for free Black people escaping the violence of New York City’s Draft Riots in 1863. The second largest African American community in the U.S. was absorbed by the forces of real estate development in New York City. After almost fifty years of community led persistence and vision, in 2014 the Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC) introduced a new Cultural Arts Building and interpretive landscape on the same campus as the original community. “Connecting to the Archive: Counter-Gentrification Tactics in Central Brooklyn,” strengthens community development activities as a counterforce to gentrification through several processes that center around the ongoing development of archival and oral history collections held by the Center. Through academic partnership with Pratt Institute in the Pratt Weeksville Archive students and faculty work together with the Center’s staff and community members on the ongoing archiving project, which seeks to support the Center’s efforts to preserve and add to the archive, provide access to, and interpret the archival microhistory of community development and documentation activities that led to the formation of the Society and its growth. Historic Black nineteenth century self-supporting communities can become a model for empowerment in twenty first century shrinking Black communities rendered apolitical and ahistorical and little hope for a future. Central Brooklyn is arguably the largest African American community in the U.S., with a population that is shrinking in numbers due to white gentrification and beset by the traumas caused by anti-Black racism, generational displacement and poor access to public services. To assist in this effort, the project engages with local residents in oral history and critical ethnography practices so as to decentered the privileged position of the ethnographer. Based on the multidimensional method of Edgar Morin and everyday life practitioners, the goal is to empower residents to utilize the archive through interviewing, self-documentation, storytelling, and appreciation of archival and oral history methodologies. The project connects the Center to its immediate community and the immediate community to the Center through the effort to document the memory and experience of the neighborhood in the past, present, and future, to engage with and expand the archival collections held at the Center so as to create a place of refuge, delight and individual and collective history as a counterforce to the forces of global neoliberalism that continue to degrade, marginalize and challenge BIPOC community building.
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Dias, Bruna Ferreira, Ingridy Horrana Melo de Sales, and Shanoon Mariáh Consoli. "HEMOGLOBINOPATIAS EM COMUNIDADES QUILOMBOLAS." In I Congresso Brasileiro de Hematologia Clínico-laboratorial On-line. Revista Multidisciplinar em Saúde, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51161/rems/784.
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Introdução: As hemoglobinopatias têm origem genética e hereditária. Não possuem cura, apenas o tratamento paliativo contra sinais e sintomas. De origem africana, as hemoglobinopatias foram disseminadas no mundo a partir da imigração de escravos. Para escapar da escravidão, os africanos se refugiaram e fundaram comunidades "quilombolas", afastadas dos centros urbanos e, consequentemente, com difícil acesso aos serviços de saúde. Assim, não possuem todas as informações necessárias como forma de prevenir o risco que essas patologias podem causar. Objetivo: Pesquisar a prevalência de hemoglobinopatias em comunidades quilombolas de diferentes regiões do Brasil e enfatizar a importância do aconselhamento genético e medidas de prevenção. Material e métodos : É um estudo epidemiológico a partir de dados secundários das secretarias de saúde dos estados brasileiros e do governo federal. A pesquisa foi realizada nos sites do Ministério da Saúde e da ANVISA. Foram selecionados 5 artigos referentes aos estados da Bahia, Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Piauí e Tocantins. 1.744 pessoas participaram da pesquisa. Resultados: 159 pessoas apresentaram algum tipo de hemoglobinopatias, dessas, 100 se autodeclararam negras, reforçando a teoria que pessoas negras e descendentes de quilombolas possuem maior tendência a apresentar algum tipo de mutação na hemoglobina. O traço falciforme apresentou maior prevalência, com 106 amostras. Outras 42 amostras apresentaram hemoglobinas variantes, nas quais 11 revelaram a presença de anemia falciforme. O que também corrobora com essa hipótese são os casamentos consanguíneos nas comunidades, pois dessa forma reduz a variabilidade genética e aumenta a possibilidade de mais pessoas apresentarem traço ou anemia falciforme. Dos artigos analisados, 2 apresentaram casamentos consanguíneos. Conclusão: Como forma de auxiliar a tomar uma decisão segura, o aconselhamento genético é indispensável, sendo que o diagnóstico precoce e o processo de educação sobre os aspectos básicos da doença são medidas educativas/preventivas essenciais para reduzir a incidência das hemoglobinopatias e melhorar a qualidade dos portadores.
Reports on the topic "Urbanism in Africa"
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Abdullah, Hannah, Karim Elgendy, and Hanne Knaepen. Climate Resilience in Cities of the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood: Opportunities for the EU Green Deal. The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55317/casc016.
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Cities in the Middle East and North Africa are already suffering the effects of climate change. Weak urban regulation, ineffective climate policies, limited decentralization and insufficient empowerment of local authorities and civil society further decrease urban resilience. Future climate scenarios and projected urban growth threaten the stability of the region; with potential negative knock-on effects on Europe. This CASCADES Spotlight Study examines climate vulnerabilities in urban areas in countries to the south of the EU and the wider Middle East and North Africa region and advocates for systemic approaches to addressing urban climate resilience by strengthening the water-energy-food nexus, as well as other enabling factors such as decentralization. It concludes with recommendations on how the European Green Deal can help cities in the region adapt to climate impacts, based on a water-energy-food nexus approach. Over the past two decades, the European Commission has stepped up its support for urban climate action and resilience. An increasing number of programmes financed under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) South have addressed urban climate resilience in response to the region’s rapid urbanization and the high climate vulnerability of cities. The number of urban dwellers in the wider Middle East and North Africa region is estimated to reach 527 million in 2050, an increase of 72% compared to 2020. At the same time, climate impacts – including both slow onset changes and sudden disasters – are putting additional stress on urban infrastructure. This stress is aggravated by weak urban regulations that have created unsustainable development trends which undermine the potential benefits of urbanization and adversely affect urban climate resilience. The prevalence of highly centralized administrative systems and incomplete decentralization reforms hamper local capacity building and decision-making, which are prerequisites for effective adaptation and resilience. At the same time, climate impacts – including both slow onset changes and sudden disasters – are putting additional stress on urban infrastructure. This stress is aggravated by weak urban regulations that have created unsustainable development trends which undermine the potential benefits of urbanization and adversely affect urban climate resilience. The prevalence of highly centralized administrative systems and incomplete decentralization reforms hamper local capacity building and decision-making, which are prerequisites for effective adaptation and resilience. The convergence of the region’s harsh climatic conditions with rapid, unsustainable urbanization and the associated socio-economic burdens can exacerbate existing political instability, conflict-induced migration and poverty. These developments could cascade into the EU, altering security, trade and diplomatic relations with the Southern Neighbourhood. The EU’s evolving approach to working with local authorities on urban infrastructure and climate governance is a first step towards addressing the region’s intertwined urban and climate crises. However, this approach is still in the early stages and there is a need to reflect on lessons learned and how urban spaces, climates and governance are evolving in the region. This study suggests that the EU’s overwhelming focus on supporting cities in the region with energy efficiency and the transition to sustainable energy systems is not enough to strengthen urban climate resilience. In cities of the Southern Neighbourhood, which typically struggle with resource management and scarcity, climate resilience will increasingly depend on local capacities to formulate and implement nexus approaches, especially in the water, energy and food sectors. Based on case studies of three small and intermediary urban areas, the study advocates for a systemic approach to addressing urban climate resilience in Southern Neighbourhood cities. Considering the established effectiveness of applying a water-energy-food nexus approach to improving climate resilience, the paper stresses the need for local governments to explore nexus opportunities between the water, energy and food sectors in order to achieve resilient and sustainable urbanism, while also highlighting other enabling factors such as decentralization. It concludes by exploring how future external action around the European Green Deal and its ambitions for systemic transformation could benefit from stepping up cooperation with cities in the Southern Neighbourhood around the water-energy-food nexus.