West African Studies Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2020 Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography
This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2020.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704590006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- The Sahel andWest Africa Club
- Foreword
- The team and acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Chapter 1. The challenges of measuring urbanisation in Africa
- THE LIMITATIONS OF OFFICIAL DEFINITIONS OF URBAN
- Three approaches to defining urban
- The absence of a universally accepted definition
- A bias in international statistics on large agglomerations
- THE BENEFITS OF A SPATIAL APPROACH
- Sprawl and urban administrative boundaries
- In situ urbanisation of rural areas
- The formation of metropolitan regions
- AFRICAPOLIS: A NEW VISION OF AFRICAN URBANISATION
- A bottom-up approach
- A complement to national statistics
- Notes
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 2. Geo-statistical analysis of urbanisation dynamics in Africa
- level and pace of urbanisation
- The level of urbanisation
- The pace of urban transition in Africa
- Urban population growth
- Agglomeration size and urban systems
- The distribution of urban networks
- The evolving geography of urban agglomerations
- Transnational and national patterns in urban clusters
- The continued emergence of new agglomerations
- Proximity and distance
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3. History, politics, environment and urban forms in Africa
- HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT
- Demographic conditions of urban growth
- Political contexts and urbanisation
- Environmental context
- LOCAL URBAN FORMS
- The main spatial attractors
- Combinations of spatial attractors
- What models of development for agglomerations?
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 4. Africa's new urban dynamics
- Larger agglomerations and new forms of urbanisation
- The dominance of national metropoles
- A new scale of African urbanisation: Metropolitan regions
- The emergence of mega-agglomerations.
- COASTAL URBANISATION AND INTERIOR URBANISATION
- Africa's low urban coastalisation
- Emergence of an inner urban Africa
- THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE URBAN
- The balance between humans and nature
- Prospects for sustainable development
- Notes
- References
- Annexes
- Annexe A. Processing satellite images
- Annexe B. Urban population
- Annexe C. Urban population growth
- Annexe D. Level of urbanisation
- Annexe E. Metropolitan population
- Annexe F. Number of agglomerations
- Annexe G. Average distance between agglomerations
- Annexe H. Statistical annex
- Glossary.
