AAG Annual Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2025, Detroit, Mich., USA
Session Title: Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa (1)
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Virtual 2
Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal) - Introduction
Gabriella Carolini & Sarah Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “Prioritizing Partnership: action planning in Nairobi in times of polycrisis”
Katrin Hofer, ETH Zurich – “Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development: Insights from Bramfischerville, Johannesburg”
Manon Troux & Pascale Philifert, Université Paris Nanterre – “The renewal of old urban centers in Morocco: challenges and limits of the new urban renovation policy”
Danie du Plessis, Stellenbosch University – “Municipal planning governance reform and spatial plan quality: Evidence from South African cities”
Elizabeth Carlino, Texas A&M University – “Where the rubber meets the road: A critical analysis of climate change policy and water rights in South Africa”
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AAG Annual Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2025, Detroit, Mich., USA
Session Title: Urban Governance and Spatial Planning in Africa (2)
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Virtual 3
Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal) - Introduction
Hakeem Bishi, Concordia University – “The Limits of Public-Priva te Partnerships in Urban Marketplace Modernization: Insights from Lagos”
Noor Mazhar, University of Cambridge – “Planning after the fact: the recognition, regularisation and regulation of small-scale rental in Cape Town”
Mojca Smode Cvitanovic & Melita Čavlović, University of Zagreb – “Modalities of feedback - West Africa as a springboard for UN funded projects in socialist Yugoslavia”
Raynald Ballo, University of Le Havre Normandie & Philippe Vidal, Saint-Etienne University – “Do digital shared mobility platforms in West Africa really need public actors?”
Elia Axinia Machado, Lehman College, CUNY - "Is there a relationship between conflict events and rainfall in Ethiopia? The importance of geo-precision and unit of analysis".