Received Concepts and Theories in African Urbanisation Studies and Urban Management Strategies
A critique
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10861968 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Don C I Okpala (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT) P.O. Box 60040, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1987 |
| Volumen | 24 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 137-150 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1987-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713703867 |
| OpenAlex | W2170789141 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 17 |
| Referencias citadas | 17 |
Concepts and theories employed in today's African urban studies have often been transfers from Western urbanisation Studies which have embodied transfers of cultural values. These have generally been applied without paying enough attention either to indigenous sociocultural and value systems, nor to analysing and interpreting the relevance of Africa's point in an urban evolutionary continuum. The uncritical transfer and application of such concepts has led to prescriptions and recommendations for urban management policies and programmes that have proved largely ineffective, and involved much misdirection and misapplication of limited resources. The consequence has been the continued exacerbation and compounding of urban problems. It is argued that effective policy responses can only be derived from a more realistic evaluation of African urban problems, based not only on Western European analytical perspectives, but also on the analysis of economic, historical socio-cultural factors indigenous to Africa itself
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Indigenous · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Urban theory · Urbanization · Anthropology · Ecology · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Studies
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Dualism and Universalism
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International precepts versus local knowledge as bases of planning for sustainable development
Development control and shelter provision in Nigerian cities
Attitudes to Third World urban planning
Interventions in housing provision in Makeni, Sierra Leone
African Urban Studies
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Colonial cities, postcolonial Africa and the world economy
The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North
Man's Struggle For Shelter In An Urbanizing World
The Myth of Marginality
A Theory of Slums
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Employment, incomes and equality
European planning ideology in Tanzania
Statistical Significance Tests
The Myth of Marginality
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| Obras citantes distintas | 17 |
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| Citas por año | 0,46 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1989 - 2025 (37) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 17 |