Print Email Facebook Twitter Spatial challenges in contemporary African New Towns and potentials for alternative planning strategies Title Spatial challenges in contemporary African New Towns and potentials for alternative planning strategies Author Keeton, R.E. (TU Delft Urban Design) Nijhuis, S. (TU Delft Landscape Architecture) Date 2019 Abstract New Towns in development across Africa are overwhelmingly designed according to twentieth-century planning models ranging from functionalist Chinese grids to American gated communities. Contemporary African New Towns based on these models are often unable to adapt to stimuli and, as a result, exacerbate both spatial and ecological challenges. The objective of this paper is to argue that African New Towns require a substantial shift from current practice and that planners must imagine new, hybrid planning strategies. This paper takes an exploratory approach and identifies the spatial challenges specific to contemporary African New Towns. Building on the argument that planning benefits from linkages between critical social theory and environmental science, this paper asserts that an adaptive urban planning approach that effectively engages citizens can be a more sustainable alternative to current practice. The paper concludes with implications for future research on the translation of challenges into potentials for African New Towns. Subject Adaptive urban planningAfricaNew Townsvulnerability To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4645de7-8e4e-46d9-9140-7ed289ef6398 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1660625 ISSN 1356-3475 Source International Planning Studies, 24 (3-4), 218-234 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 R.E. Keeton, S. Nijhuis Files PDF Spatial_challenges_in_con ... tegies.pdf 2.54 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f4645de7-8e4e-46d9-9140-7ed289ef6398/datastream/OBJ/view