Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

From the mid-1940s, strategies and policies of state-directed development empowered the
state to transform a set of relationships among labor and domestic and international capital …

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This
book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close …

This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise,
well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and …

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and
women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South …

Over 800 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in slums. Why? I argue that
slums are a result of “disjointed modernization” and show that 70% of cross-country variation …

This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food
security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate …

Scientific evidence for global environmental change in Africa presents a prima facia case for
increased human migration and displacement. Closer scrutiny of the evidence on …

Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa. However,
the field is currently under‐researched and under‐theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it …

Advancing global urbanism depends upon making Africa's cities a more dominant part of the
global urban narrative. Constructing a more legitimate research agenda for African cities …