African cities and specifically Africa ’ s new u and institutions seeking to understand , influ rate of urbanisation . At the same time , lack specific to Africa , has led to a largely expe
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Arup as a multidisciplinary built-environment consultancy has developed an e environment , undertaking more than 1 000 self-funded research projects in focused on urbanisation and cities , and resulted in a collective body of work
The recently formed Cities group at Arup Southern Africa , led by Nico Venter understanding of African city contexts ; where overall city expansion and urb programme was started and is a long-term commitment to building our kno
The research process is engagement focused and iterative and aims to captu first phase of the African cities research focused on understanding the challe into account cultural , economic and geospatial differences and creating realistic engagement g
The five cities were Johannesburg , Addis Ababa , Dar-es-Salaam , Accra and Nairobi . Venter exp cards , designed to start conversations around key issues . It was clear early on in the research clean water and integrated transport . These have translated into themes reflected in the cards differently and collectively foster fresh ideas on city transformation ”.
The first public workshop was on 25 August in Johannesburg , bringing together city stakehold and built-environment practitioners in a quest to uncover new ideas for the city . “ Further wor enhance our understanding of African urbanism - assisting us to appropriately meet the prese Venter .
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