posted on 2024-09-05, 21:12authored byEdgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell, Gareth Haysom
This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. We note a shift to multi-nodal urban governance and highlight the significance of the synthesis of social, economic and ecological values in a normative vision of what an African metropolis might aspire to by 2030. The sustainable development vision provides a useful stimulus for Africa’s urban poly-crisis, demanding fresh interdisciplinary and normatively explicit thinking, grounded in a practical and realistic understanding of Africa’s infrastructure and governance challenges.
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Taylor & Francis Group
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Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell & Gareth Haysom (2018) African dreams: locating urban infrastructure in the 2030 sustainable developmental agenda, Area Development and Policy, 3:2, 149-169, DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2018.1428111