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      Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
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      Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa

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      Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa book

      ByJohn Abbott
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 31 January 2012
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203138229
      Pages 512
      eBook ISBN 9780203138229
      Subjects Built Environment, Global Development
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      Abbott, J. (2012). Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203138229

      ABSTRACT

      This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made.

      With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic development and social equity, through the mediation of natural resources. Adopting this view enables investment to be channelled more effectively to provide the engine for economic growth, while providing equitable services for all residents. At the same time, the mediation of resource flows integrates the metabolism of the city into the wider ecosystem. This vision leads to a new way of thinking about infrastructure, giving clear definition to the concept of green infrastructure.

      On the basis of research gathered throughout an extensive career, John Abbott draws in particular from his experience in Ethiopia to demonstrate the ways in which infrastructure needs to respond to the economies, societies and natural environments of twenty-first century urban Africa.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|38 pages

      The failure of western intervention in Africa

      chapter 2|27 pages

      The evolution of urban development

      chapter 3|41 pages

      How modern urban infrastructure evolved

      chapter 4|35 pages

      Transferring the British infrastructure model to

      chapter 5|35 pages

      Decentralisation and urban infrastructure

      chapter 6|36 pages

      Urbanisation in Ethiopia

      chapter 7|44 pages

      From engineering to infrastructure: changing the urban paradigm

      chapter 8|24 pages

      Rethinking urban development in Africa

      chapter 9|18 pages

      A model for green infrastructure

      chapter 10|66 pages

      Green urban infrastructure in practice: mediating urban resource flows

      chapter 11|34 pages

      Green infrastructure and urban governance

      chapter 12|55 pages

      Building African cities for a sustainable future

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