Add to ORKGThe common assumption that rural-to-urban migration is the primary source of rapid urban population growth in Africa is flawed. Natural population increase within urban areas and rural transformation are also important forces. Policies aimed at easing population pressure in urban areas by discouraging migration are therefore unlikely to succeed
Zimbabwe’s 2012 census report suggests that notable de-urbanisation occurred between 2002 and 2012. ...
This study investigates the contemporary urbanization process of sub-Saharan Africa. The region is p...
Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins....
Strengthening the role of Africa’s urban areas as engines of growth remains a major challenge; while...
Towns and cities existed throughout Africa’s past. However since the late twentieth century Africans...
The stylized facts of Africa’s urban transition highlight the limitations of traditional economic mo...
Sub-Saharan Africa has urbanised at tremendous speed over the last half century, in a process that h...
During the past three decades, the cities of the developing world in general, and of Africa in parti...
[From Introduction] Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa: changing the locus of poverty. Urbanisation ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the least urban region of the world where the urbanisation process has s...
The realties of rapid urbanization and population growth in Africa are objectively patent with the ...
Debates on development and urbanisation seldom go beyond a dichotomous rural-urban distinction. Howe...
[From Introduction] Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa: changing the locus of poverty. Urbanisation ...
This paper documents strong but differentiated links between climate and urbanization in large panel...
A research paper on urban land development in Africa.Africa, with the most recent urban tradition an...
Zimbabwe’s 2012 census report suggests that notable de-urbanisation occurred between 2002 and 2012. ...
This study investigates the contemporary urbanization process of sub-Saharan Africa. The region is p...
Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins....
Strengthening the role of Africa’s urban areas as engines of growth remains a major challenge; while...
Towns and cities existed throughout Africa’s past. However since the late twentieth century Africans...
The stylized facts of Africa’s urban transition highlight the limitations of traditional economic mo...
Sub-Saharan Africa has urbanised at tremendous speed over the last half century, in a process that h...
During the past three decades, the cities of the developing world in general, and of Africa in parti...
[From Introduction] Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa: changing the locus of poverty. Urbanisation ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the least urban region of the world where the urbanisation process has s...
The realties of rapid urbanization and population growth in Africa are objectively patent with the ...
Debates on development and urbanisation seldom go beyond a dichotomous rural-urban distinction. Howe...
[From Introduction] Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa: changing the locus of poverty. Urbanisation ...
This paper documents strong but differentiated links between climate and urbanization in large panel...
A research paper on urban land development in Africa.Africa, with the most recent urban tradition an...
Zimbabwe’s 2012 census report suggests that notable de-urbanisation occurred between 2002 and 2012. ...
This study investigates the contemporary urbanization process of sub-Saharan Africa. The region is p...
Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins....