Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

Akosombo Township, designed by the Greek urbanist Constantinos Doxiadis, is the model
city at the foot of the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest development project …

State development interventions in cities of the global South can attract criticism for imposing
norms at odds with ordinary people's needs and practices. Yet complex relations with state …

Abstract The South African state's 'will to improve'poor people's lives through free home-
ownership is unsettled by subsequent unauthorised housing usage and adaptions. Despite …

South Africa's RDP housing programme has delivered ownership of a house and serviced
land to millions of first time home-owners since 1994. Intended to both provide shelter and …

Despite a growing recognition of the significance of farmer-led irrigation, externally
engineered and induced schemes remain a popular model for irrigation development in sub …

In this paper, I discuss the imposition of economy‐wide price controls in Zimbabwe in June
2007. The government's immediate intent in doing so was to stop the 'mad'movement of …

Following a decade from the mid-1990s that saw a near cessation in dam building, the
infrastructure has returned. This phenomenon is controversial because dams' social and …

Globally, and especially in Africa, twentieth-century dams were typically imagined through
high modernist ideology as the premier development project, but this ended with the decade …

Dams have a prominent historical status, imagined through high-modernist ideology as the
premier infrastructure project, delivering electricity, irrigation and the spectacle of …