CFP AAG 2025

AAG Annual Meeting, 24 - 28 March 2025, Detroit, Mich., USA

[ https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/ ]

Virtual Session

URBAN GOVERNANCE AND SPATIAL PLANNING IN AFRICA

Session Organizer & Chair: Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Session explores recent developments and innovations in spatial planning in African countries. It includes theoretical and empirical contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following issues:

o   Spatial planning systems: structure, tools, practices

o   Spatial planning and informal urbanization

o   Spatial Planning and Social Housing

o   Urban land policy and spatial planning

o   Citizen participation in urban planning

o   The role of local government in spatial planning

o   Spatial planning in Metropolitan Areas

We are also interested in hearing about historical accounts of urban planning in Africa, in both colonial and post-colonial periods.

The Session comprises country and cross-country studies, as well as individual and comparative studies of cities in Africa.  This can be either standard academic research or firsthand presentations by academics, planners or policy makers engaged in developing innovative modes of urban/spatial planning in African countries.

The Session is supported by the 'African Urban Planning Research Network' (AUPRN).

Abstracts by members of the 'African Urban Planning Research Network' (AUPRN), as well as from anyone with a relevant contribution in this field, are welcome. The Session is an opportunity for those interested on these issues to share their work and experiences.

It is expected the inclusion of a selection of the papers in a special issue planned to be published in the journal 'Planning Perspectives' (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rppe20). Papers will undergo the standard double blind peer review process of the journal.

Please send a 200 words abstract to Carlos Nunes Silva (cnsulisboa@gmail.com) no later than October 25th 12 November. The AAG abstract submission deadline is October 31 14 November (New deadline).

Inquiries should be sent, by e-mail, to:

Carlos Nunes Silva

Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: cnsulisboa@gmail.com

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/cns-ulisboa/home 

SESSION (AAG 2025): https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22727 

AUPRN: https://sites.google.com/site/africanurbanplanning/auprn---african-urban-planning-research-network