The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Development Planning in Africa

386 Pages·2022·6.836 MB·English

by  Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo

The Palgrave Handbook
of Urban Development
Planning in Africa
Edited by
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Development
Planning in Africa
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Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
Editors
The Palgrave
Handbook of Urban
Development Planning
in Africa
Editors
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
Geneva, Switzerland Department of Geography
Egerton University
Egerton, Kenya
ISBN 978-3-031-06088-5 ISBN 978-3-031-06089-2 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06089-2
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Foreword
I launched the preparation of this book at Egerton University in Kenya on
30 July, 2018. At that time, I was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academic
Affairs at Egerton University in Kenya. Since then, Egerton University has
facilitated the preparation of the book through the Department of Geography.
The key contribution of this book is not in publishing new research on
urban development planning in Africa but in distilling and making avail-
able in a synthesized form the findings of existing research to provide an
information resource for use by policymakers, practitioners, decision-makers
and researchers. While there is a need for new research, it is important to
consolidate existing research in an easy form that can be utilized by several
people.
The details covered in the chapters reveal the rich knowledge resource avail-
able for overall urban development planning in Africa or for specific issues such
as population, poverty, energy, transport, water and recreation. The authors
have synthesized several studies to provide key insights on methods, theories,
core findings and case studies that should inform current urban development
planning in African countries.
I congratulate the editors and authors for bringing this book to a good
conclusion and challenge them to update it from time to time. I look at this
edition as the first step in a process that should see the editors and authors
of this book and/or other researchers updating the chapters and even adding
new themes in the coming years.
Alexander Kahi
Egerton University
Njoro, Kenya
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Acknowledgements We are grateful to the authors, Egerton University, Felicia Yieke,
staff of Palgrave MacMillan and our families for their contributions and support that
made it possible for this handbook to come to fruition.
Contents
1 Navigating the Urban Development Planning Landscape
in Africa 1
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
2 Planning Cultures 17
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, Winnie V. Mitullah,
and Michael A. Larice
3 Political Management and Governance 49
Felix Kiruthu
4 Agriculture 75
Reniko Gondo and Joseph E. Mbaiwa
5 Financial Resources 105
Raphael Ngolo and Rodney Asilla
6 Population Planning and Management 141
Reniko Gondo
7 Managing Poverty 165
Humphreys W. Obulinji
8 Public Transport Services 197
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
9 Water Management 225
Gladys Moraa Marie Nyachieo and Martin M. Magu
10 Rural–Urban Linkages 247
Francis Nyongesa Wegulo
11 Recreation Planning and Management 291
Wycliffe W. Simiyu Njororai
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12 Air Quality 327
William S. W. Busolo and Victor Isanda Njabira
Index 373
Notes on Contributors
Asilla Rodney is a trained teacher and social science researcher by profes-
sion. He holds a Master of Research and Public Policy degree from Egerton
University, Nakuru, Kenya; and a Bachelor of Education degree from Kenyatta
University, Nairobi, Kenya. He teaches the French Language and Literature in
English, as well as Research Methods at Egerton University, Kenya.
Busolo William S. W. holds a M.Sc. degree in Architecture from the Univer-
sity of London, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Architecture, University of
Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently the Principal Architect and Director at Inter-
shelter Sullivan Architects. He is also a lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University
of Agriculture and Technology in the school of Architecture and Building
Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture, where his interests are in
urban design, regional planning and housing.
Garfinkel-Castro Andrea is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah.
Her research focuses on planning culture—the ideas and beliefs planners draw
on as they carry out the work of planning. Her dissertation focuses on under-
standing how planning in the United States differs at the national and local
levels and how these cultures respond to changing socio-spatial contexts. The
Black Lives Matter movement provides a temporal context to change by exam-
ining ways planners are addressing planning’s aspirations-outcomes equity gap,
an unreconciled discrepancy between stated intentions to plan equitably and
outcomes that fall short of these aspirations and community needs. She is also
launching a non-profit organization to carry out a pedestrian safety research
and education project that seeks to implement and test low-cost pedestrian
safety measures.
Gondo Reniko holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Botswana. He
obtained his M.Sc. and B.Sc. Degrees at Bindura University of Science Educa-
tion and Zimbabwe Open University (Zimbabwe), respectively. He is a Senior
Research Fellow at the Okavango Research Institute (ORI), University of
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