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Title:Special issue: Changing planning law in Africa
Editor:Watson, VanessaISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330)
Volume:22
Issue:3
Pages:203-314
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Liberia
South Africa
Zambia
Brazil
Subjects:urban planning
legal reform
External link:https://link.springer.com/journal/12132/22/3/page/1
Abstract:Most countries in Africa inherited their urban planning law from former colonial powers. Many of these countries have since revised their planning law, but the attitudes and practices of politicians and planning professionals towards urban development still reflect the approaches enshrined in the older colonial laws. This special issue of Urban Forum reflects on why changing these laws is so difficult in Africa and what has happened where reforms have been attempted. The case of Brazil has been juxtaposed with the African cases to show how a progressive urban reform agenda can have far-reaching implications for planning law. Following the introductory paper by Vanessa Watson, Stephen Berrisford - in three papers - looks at the reasons why it is difficult to change urban planning laws in African countries; the revision of planning legislation in Zambia; and the unravelling of apartheid spatial planning legislation in South Africa. Stuart Wilson examines the State's duty to prevent homelessness in South African cities; Patrick McAuslan looks at urban planning law in Liberia; and Edesio Fernandes discusses the urban reform agenda in Brazil. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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