Dialogues inDevelopment: Prof. Susan Parnell on Urban Development Planning. Part 2
Channel: The Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Date: 2012-01-31

Current urban challenges, future directions: the next 50 years of urban planning in Africa

This is the second video out of three in the series exploring African Perspectives on Urban Development Planning being taking place in the DPU-UCL. Professor Susan Parnell addresses ways of understanding the enormous changes to cities occurring in sub-saharan African countries. Elaborating on the theoretical and ethical challenges posed by unprecedented urbanisms in Africa, and working at the interface of theory and practice in the global South, she reflects on how equipped we are to face the urban planning futures.

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