Theme 4 - Social and economic challenges and changes in African cities
The Conference will bring together and discuss ideas and research about society and the city with ideas about planning. Papers will explore African urban conditions and processes and their implications for planning.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following ones:
•The rapidly growing middle classes and linkages with wider global economies and its effects, namely on regional disparities, gender and ethnicity; Justice and inequality and the righ to the city in Africa
•Urban food security and urban food systems; urban agriculture
•Street art, urban music, public spaces /urbanity and planning
• Naming the urban; place names in Africa
•Urban youth movements, new political visions and the city
•The representation of cities in literature and cinema