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Author: Moriconi-Ebrard François
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2016-03-18
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9264252231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-02-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 926431430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: OECD Publishing
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9264770860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-03-21
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9264817107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorth and West Africa are undergoing rapid urbanisation. While cities and urban areas have always been sites of conflict, given their political and economic importance, many insurgencies, rebellions and separatist movements are associated with rural areas.
Author: Hilda Kuper
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-13
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0520310403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Author: Josef Gugler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978-07-28
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521213486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1978 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, this is an interdisciplinary study of rapid urban growth in West Africa. Gugler and Flanagan first explore the history of the cities of the early West African empires and they draw on the work of social anthropologists and sociologists, as well as demographers, economists, geographers, historians, political scientists and social psychologists. They then describe the urban explosion that the region experienced after World War II. They explore the implications of widespread urban unemployment and underemployment, the housing crisis and the emergence of metropolitan areas such as Lagos. The literature on urbanization and social change in Black Africa in general, and West Africa in particular, expanded at a fast pace in the years preceding publication. This critical review of the disparate findings filled a gap in African Studies and threw light on the understanding of Third World urbanization.
Author: Oecd
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2020-02-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789264579583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica 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: Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher: Evanston : Northwestern University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Little
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1965-01-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521055659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1971 book considers the part played by voluntary associations in the growth of towns in West Africa.
Author: William John Hanna
Publisher: Chicago : Aldine, Atherton
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph 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.
