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Ghana: Urban Planning Needs to Look Back First - Three Cities Show Why
The Conversation Africa, 14 September 2020
Months into the global COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have begun discussing what the "new normal" might look like in metropolitan environments. Some urban planners have framed… Read more »
Post Covid-19, What Will the New Normal Be for African Cities?
Some urban planners have framed Covid-19 as an opportunity to re-imagine and improve city-built landscapes. Urbanism journalist Alissa Walker writes that now is not the time for imagining an urbanist Utopia. Instead, people must come to terms with the historical processes that have "made Covid-19 more catastrophic than it should have been". As at September 2020, the continent has recorded 1,366,455 Covid-19 cases, with 33,071, deaths and 1,116,986 recoveries.
Accra and Johannesburg are roughly the same age. Gold was discovered just outside present day Johannesburg in 1884, triggering the rush that founded the city. The British declared Accra the colonial administrative capital of the Gold Coast in 1877, both events occurring within a decade of each other. Today, metropolitan Johannesburg's population is around 5 million, whilst Accra's is just over 2.5 million. Johannesburg's brand identity, prominently displayed in its media image, is of a "world class African city". Accra makes fewer claims to "world class" status, but in 2016, was awarded the title of Africa's "most expensive city".
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The Ministry of ICT and Innovation has started the search for a firm to implement a smart system for waste management in Kigali city. During the pilot phase, smart waste collection ... Read more »
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Never has the John Michuki Memorial Park's 1000-hectares - defended from land grabbers by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai in 1999 and secured by activists and the Kenya Forest ... Read more »
