Description du projet
Les facteurs du développement urbain en Afrique
Le taux d’urbanisation en Afrique est en pleine croissance, passant de 15 % en 1960 à 40 % en 2010. Avec 60 % prévus en 2050, cette hausse est plus rapide que sur n’importe quel autre continent. Le projet MAU, financé par l’UE, évaluera le rôle de la géopolitique, de la croissance économique et des initiatives privées dans le développement urbain de l’Afrique. Il apportera une nouvelle base théorique sur les politiques urbaines, en tenant compte de la relation entre les investissements dans les infrastructures publiques et l’essor de la valeur de la propriété. Ce projet examinera le caractère transnational du développement urbain, ainsi que la tendance pour créer de grandes villes réparties sur le continent africain.
Objectif
This project will investigate how urban futures are made through different global circuits and in turn shape key transnational processes: geopolitics, development and private investment, through a close focus on the transnational actors and decision-making processes involved in large-scale developments and interventions in selected African cities. The research will produce: new theoretical perspectives on urban politics and policy-relevant understandings of state capacity and land value capture in urban development. The project brings to fruition the applicant’s agenda-setting post-colonial critique in urban studies (2006, Ordinary Cities, Routledge), practically worked through in her recent innovations in comparative urbanism (forthcoming, Comparative Urbanism, Sage). This research will bring forward original empirical findings and develop further the innovative comparative methods tested in a recent esrc funded project. It will contribute theorizations of the new territories of global urban politics, starting in African contexts. Engagements with residents, stakeholders, policy makers and practitioners will build understanding of how better urban outcomes might be secured. The project compares three transnational circuits and nine cases of urban development in three cities (Accra, Dar es Salaam, Lilongwe) where all three circuits have a strong presence, and which encompass a range of levels of urbanization and economic development. Focussing on transnationalised urban development processes and the widely spread phenomenon of large scale urban developments will provide a basis to work against the neglect and exceptionalism of African experiences within urban studies, an important motivation for this project. The research seeks to build African based research capacity in urban studies and includes African based collaborators and early career scholars in the research team.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitution d’accueil
WC1E 6BT London
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