Increasing the Relevance of Urban Planning Education in African Cities

Nancy Odendaal
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Nancy Odendaal: School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 2013, vol. 2, issue 3, 30-37

Abstract: The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) is a peer-to-peer network of 50 Universities in Africa that teach urban planning degrees. In 2008, the AAPS received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation to enable a project on revitalizing planning education. This comprised two parts: a program on curricular reform and network building and a second on case study research. This piece reflects on the rationale for these two initiatives and the outcomes thus far. The important underlying theme is that a renaissance in African planning education is closely associated with shifting value constructs and conceptualizations of what urban planning is, and what its function is in the contemporary African city.

Date: 2013
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