New ways of managing water have emerged in some of Africa’s urban and peri-urban areas.
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The UN defines water and sanitation as human rights. Why not decent drainage too?
Research in Kenya’s capital found average levels of hazardous solid and liquid particles in the air within households were three times more than the WHO recommended maximum level.
A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
Informal settlements are often undocumented or hidden on official maps, but they house about a billion people worldwide. Their existence demands a more sophisticated approach to urban development.
As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.
Imagine cities competed to eliminate hunger, poverty, unemployment, crime and greenhouse emissions, and to offer housing and transport for all. Don’t scoff – urban planning was once an Olympic event.
Thanks to life-skills training, girls who previously believed it improbable that they would go on to secondary school are now allowing themselves to dream about possibilities.
The past decade has shown a strong connection between political protests and the looting of foreign-owned shops in South Africa. Research shows that local leaders use protests to maintain their power.
Many African cities are sites of rapid urbanisation. To ensure that such societies are water resilient, it is necessary to address formal and informal forms of development.
Top contributors
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Head of Urbanisation and Wellbeing, African Population and Health Research Center, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Institute Associate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Full Professor in Anthropology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
