Governing Urban Africa

1. Local government and urban governance in Africa: an overview-. 2. Local government reforms and grassroots development: experiences from selected African countries-. 3. Decentralization and local governance in Lusophone African countries-. 4. Planning law reforms in Africa-. 5. Reforming planning law and practice in Africa: the case of Kenya-. 6. Planning law reforms in Lusophone African countries-. 7. Governing urban informality: unscrambling enclaves of containment in Zimbabwe-. 8. Imagined urban development and real urban lives in the New Luanda, Angola-. 9. African urban plans - the case of Kigamboni, Tanzania-. 10. Limits of acceptable change (lac) as a tool for the management of heritage sites: the case of island of Mozambique-. 11. A responsive urban project in the M'zab - Algeria: the case of the new ksar of Tafilalt-. 12. Urban and regional planning: when mining companies take on the government's role. Risks and contributions of public-private collaboration in urban and regional management in guinea-. 13. Incantations for future bearings: toward participation in Mozambican urban planning-. 14. My water; my choice! The role of citizens in ensuring equitable access to water in Soweto east village -Nairobi-. 15. Governance of public spaces: between discourse and reality-. 16. Constituting urban space. A Moroccan case study-. 17. Sub-Saharan African middle classes urban trends: challenges for local governance and critical reflections on the 2030 urban development goals.