AFRICAN URBAN PLANNING HISTORIES
PLANNING PERSPECTIVES Vol. 41(4), 2026
Special issue on ‘AFRICAN URBAN PLANNING HISTORIES’ (click here)
Carlos Nunes Silva, Guest-editor
Editorial - African Urban Planning Histories
Carlos Nunes Silva (Geographer, Lisbon, Portugal) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2687337 (download)
Planning’s promises: reflections on South African experiences in the African context.
Philip Harrison & Alison Todes (School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2565375
Spatial plan quality trends in post-apartheid South African municipalities.
Daniel J. Du Plessis (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2636017
Spatial planning legacies and unauthorized land occupations in South Africa’s urban peripheries.
Abraham R. Matamanda; Leemisa S. Matooane; Johannes I. Bhanye; Kgosi Mocwagae & Lochner Marais (Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of the Free State & University of Cape Town, South Africa) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2615139
Planning after the fact.
Noor Mazhar (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2652449
A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia.
Mojca Smode Cvitanović & Melita Čavlović (Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2630401
‘Crony planning’: limits to the public-private partnership model in urban marketplace modernization in Lagos, Nigeria.
Hakeem Bishi (Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University, Canada) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2591072
Grounding infrastructure: community ownership of an international cooperation project in Kibera, Nairobi.
Sarah Williams & Gabriella Y. Carolini (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2613119
The quest for inclusive transit-oriented development in Mangaung, South Africa.
Mareli Hugo; Verna Nel & Johannes Bhanye (Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of the Free State & University of Cape Town, South Africa) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2631684
Between codification and custom: law 08/15, informality, and Islamic urban ethics in postcolonial Béchar.
Houcine Abdelmalek (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Béchar, Algeria) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2591066
Becoming dissonance: the path of recent urban heritage in Casablanca, Morocco.
Romeo Carabelli (CNRS & University of Tours, France) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2606735
The renewal of historic urban areas in Morocco: challenges and limits on the new ‘housing at risk of collapse’ policy.
Manon Troux & Pascale Philifert (Department of Geography, University Paris Nanterre, France) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2629291
Water practices: communal water rights in Moroccan river oases in times of climate change.
Heide Studer (tilia studio for landscape planning, Mödling, Austria) https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2614301