The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequality and Urban Land MarketsThe State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers critical urban issues and challenges in African cities, using social and urban geography as the overall entry points. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, the report sheds more light on inequity in African cities, and in this respect follows the main theme of the global State of the World's Cities 2010 report. Through a regional analysis, the report delves deeper into the main urban challenges facing African cities, while provoking dialogue and discussion on the role of African cities in improving national, regional and local economies through sustainable and equitable development. The report has been drafted in cooperation with Urban Land Mark. Through an analytical survey of several African cities, the report examines urban growth, social conditions in slums, environmental and energy issues and, especially, the role of urban land markets in accessing land and housing. |
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AFRICAN CITIES CHAPTER African countries African urban Algeria allocation authorities Burkina Faso Cairo capital cent Central African central government centres challenges climate change coastal consumption Côte d'Ivoire customary land Dakar decentralization development corridors dwellers economic effective Egypt emerging environmental formal land funding Ghana Gini coefficient global households housing impacts improved income increased increasingly inequality informal settlements infrastructure institutions investment Lagos Libya living major metropolitan migration Millennium Development Goals million Morocco Nairobi neighbourhoods Niger Nigeria NORTHERN AFRICAN CITIES ownership peri-urban planning policies political programmes projects rates registration regularisation Republic of South result rural Senegal significant slum social Source South Africa spatial strategies sub-Saharan subregion Sudan sustainable tenure towns Tunisia UN-HABITAT upgrading urban areas urban demographic growth urban development urban governance Urban Land Markets urban poor urban population urban regions urbanisation Western African WESTERN AFRICAN CITIES World Bank