Development and Planning in African Cities

Week 1: Introduction to development and planning in African cities Week 2: Urban land & informalities Week 3: Governance & planning Week 4: Urban risk, vulnerabilities & infrastructure The course is open to people from any disciplinary background with a desire to learn about urban development and planning in African cities and potentially to those who would like to pursue a career in urban development or planning. It is suitable for urban professionals who work or may in future want to work in Sub-Saharan Africa and would like to gain an understanding of how its cities are made and developed. You can use the hashtag #

• What is development? What is planning?
• Normative crosscutting lenses: spatial justice and social diversity
• Urban change and the evolution of planning
• Diversity of meanings, values and functions of urban land
• Formal and informal urban land markets and tenure systems
• What are urban informalities? Economic and spatial dimensions of informality
• Devolution of powers and fiscal autonomy
• Scales: city-level, metropolitan, regional
• Participatory planning (planning from below)
• Understanding urban risk and coping/adaptation strategies
• Urban health
• Co-production of urban infrastructures.