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Increasing the Relevance of Urban Planning Education in African Cities

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  • Nancy Odendaal

    (School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)

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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.

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  • Nancy Odendaal, 2013. "Increasing the Relevance of Urban Planning Education in African Cities," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), IGI Global, vol. 2(3), pages 30-37, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jepr00:v:2:y:2013:i:3:p:30-37
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