Year
2018
Publisher
Brill
Language
English
Last Update
12-Jul-2026
Keywords
Law ; sustainability-discipline ; Environmental Studies
Cities produce difference—and they accommodate difference. African cities are no exception. They rather seem to accelerate processes of differentiation to a degree that makes it difficult to conceive them as an entity, to understand their social complexities and, not least, to govern them. The pace of urbanisation in Africa currently exceeds that of all other continents. Soon, more Africans will live in cities than in rural areas. As reliable statistics are hard to establish, estimations vary, but 2030 seems to be a safe bet for the turning point (un desa, 2014; UN-Habitat, 2008, 2016; adb, 2016a; also Chapter 6,...
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