Governing Urban Africa

Carlos Nunes Silva is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests focus on urban planning in Africa, among other issues. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Planning Research.

• 1. Local government and urban governance in Africa: an overview-. 2. Local government reforms and grassroots development: experiences from selected African countries-. 3. Decentralization and local governance in Lusophone African countries-. 4. Planning law reforms in Africa-. 5. Reforming planning law and practice in Africa: the case of Kenya-. 6. Planning law reforms in Lusophone African countries-. 7. Governing urban informality: unscrambling enclaves of containment in Zimbabwe-. 8. Imagined urban development and real urban lives in the New Luanda, Angola-. 9. African urban plans - the case of Kigamboni, Tanzania-. 10. Limits of acceptable change (lac) as a tool for the management of heritage sites: the case of island of Mozambique-. 11. A responsive urban project in the M'zab – Algeria: the case of the new ksar of Tafilalt-. 12. Urban and regional planning: when mining companies take on the government’s role. Risks and contributions of public-private collaboration in urbanand regional management in guinea-. 13. Incantations for future bearings: toward participation in Mozambican urban planning-. 14. My water; my choice! The role of citizens in ensuring equitable access to water in Soweto east village –Nairobi-. 15. Governance of public spaces: between discourse and reality-. 16. Constituting urban space. A Moroccan case study-. 17. Sub-Saharan African middle classes urban trends: challenges for local governance and critical reflections on the 2030 urban development goals.