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Title
City and basic habitability. Paradigm in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10329 |
Date
2005 |
Author(s)
Viana, David Leite; Alves, Fernando Brandão |
Abstract
Authors of papers in the proceedings and CD-ROM ceded copyright to the IAHS and UP. Authors furthermore declare that papers are their original work, not previously published and take responsibility for copyrighted excerpts from other works, included in their papers with due acknowledgment in the written manuscript. Furthermore, that papers describe genuine research or review work, contain no defamatory or unlawful statements and do not infringe the rights of others. The IAHS and UP may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under this agreement. - Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria. - ABSTRACT: The following communication is an approach to the issues comprehending basic habitability in African sub-Saharan cities, perceived in the experiences of urban planning, which may point out the prospective path of these developing territories. The subsequent synopsis - focused on the urban African experiences, from the post independence period up to today - consists in a brief reflection on the process which has led to the current context of survival and rupture, which defines the habitational compound of sub-Saharan Africa. Thusly, we will try to comment on the possible routes which may lead to a sustainable - and more effective - operational pattern, concerning the urban solutions apprehended as corner stones for a basic and more adequate habitability for this part of the African continent. Considering that the majority of the population who lives in peripheral neighbourhoods, lacking the basic infra-structures and urban services, organizes itself in spontaneous occupations, we can conclude that one of the contemporaneous African urban spaces' characteristics is, in fact, its rapid mutability that reports to an imprecise and gradually informal dynamism. If we regard the «shelter» factor as one of the main functions of the complex system formed by any urban African agglomerate, we will soon acknowledge the quite long list of problems caused by the disabilities concerning the housing in sub-Saharan Africa. If the current cultural paradigm does not evolve in a steadfast beat, and if we take under consideration the African regional urban developing, there is an obvious risk of increasing the territorial, social and cultural fragmentation, which will then cause an image of anachronism, asymmetry and lack of structure of the African landscape. More than merely a debate about the civilization archetype, these issues are about reflecting on experiences of urban planning that lead to the pondering on the possible responses to be given to the current issue, against the ill use of investment means and the wasting of synergies that the occupation models of the suburban frontiers imply nowadays, by the melting of the different communities. |
Subject(s)
Housing; Living environments; Integrated housing environments; Urban services; City planning; Viable housing; Urban planning |
Language
en |
Publisher
IAHS |
Type of publication
Event; Presentation |
Format
Presentation consists of 8 pages.; This paper was transformed from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology. |
Rights
Copyright shared by: International Association for Housing Science, Coral Gables/Miami, Florida 33134, USA University of Pretoria (UP), Hillcrest, Pretoria 0002, South Africa |
Identifier
Viana, DL & Alves, FB 2005, 'City and basic habitability. Paradigm in Sub-Saharan Africa.', paper presented at XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing 2005 - Transforming Housing Environments through Design (HUE), University of Pretoria.; 1-86854-627-6 |
Repository
Pretoria - University of Pretoria, UPSpace
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