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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (Hardcover)
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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (Hardcover)
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This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can
work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major
rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the
creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth
century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban
development through the fundamental question of how decisions are
made. With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where
70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how
urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between
economic development and social equity, through the mediation of
natural resources. Adopting this view enables investment to be
channelled more effectively to provide the engine for economic
growth, while providing equitable services for all residents. At
the same time, the mediation of resource flows integrates the
metabolism of the city into the wider ecosystem. This vision leads
to a new way of thinking about infrastructure, giving clear
definition to the concept of green infrastructure. On the basis of
research gathered throughout an extensive career, John Abbott draws
in particular from his experience in Ethiopia to demonstrate the
ways in which infrastructure needs to respond to the economies,
societies and natural environments of twenty-first century urban
Africa.
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