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Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2020 : Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Sahel and West Africa Club.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Series:
- West African Studies 2074353X.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Governance.
- Urban, Rural and Regional Development.
- Development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Africa 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.
- Contents:
- Geo-statistical analysis of urbanisation dynamics in Africa
- The challenges of measuring urbanisation in Africa
- Metropolitan population
- Average distance between agglomerations
- History, politics, environment and urban forms in Africa
- Executive summary
- Processing satellite images
- The Sahel andWest Africa Club
- Level of urbanisation
- Number of agglomerations
- Glossary
- Urban population growth
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Urban population
- Statistical annex
- Foreword
- Africa's new urban dynamics.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9789264314306
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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