Informality and Temporary Urbanism as Defiance: Tales of the Everyday Life and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Urban diagnostics and a systems approach to air quality management: Pathways towards sustainable economic development and a healthy nairobi, Kenya

“…Formal planning needs to be supplemented by alternative substitute approaches based on citizen actions and interventions supported by community groups and social enterprises. These reflect informal processes developed and applied by citizens in situations where formal provisions is either not available or unreliable (Bakare et al, 2020a). Alternative substitute approaches place citizens as agents of change and challenges the boundaries between lay and expert knowledge (Andres et al, 2019;Bakare et al, 2020).…”

Unpacking planners' views of the success and failure of planning in post-apartheid South Africa

“…In the post-colonial period, plans from the colonial era or new plans that largely follow the same approach remain in place, especially in Africa. Central to the continuation of such urban visions has been the belief that African cities will catch up with cities in the North, and that phenomena such as informality are temporary (Bakare et al, 2020;Watson, 2009). Despite the mounting body of evidence, and failure to achieve these goals, these visions persist, with the most recent iteration being Wakanda-like proposals for new sustainable cities that elected officials seem to accept, despite the failure to actually deliver any of the supposed promises of these cities (Watson, 2014).…”