ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the neoliberal urban developments in Africa are attempting to incorporate global urban forms and the role this is playing in the continent's (under)development. One of the greatest challenges facing Africa today relates to how to unleash the potential benefits of the region's rapid urbanization, especially in the context of the dominance of neoliberal policies and the spread of globalization. The most high-profile urban developments of recent years have not been about restructuring the accumulation processes within extant cities but centre on new types of additive urban development which ostensibly attempt to: work from a tabula rasa; and on that basis, forge new connections with the international economy. According to Michel Foucault, heterotopias are 'a kind of effectively enacted utopia'. There are a variety of examples of heterotopic developments under construction across the continent, including Modderfontein, Eko Atlantic and Konza Techno City.
