Abstract 'Smart cities' strategies are often promoted as a panacea to existing urban planning
issues such as local economic development, public safety, traffic congestion, and …

Since the late 2000s, the city of Nairobi in Kenya has become a focal point of large-scale
and ambitious technology-driven city making processes and ambitions. In this study, we …

In the past 2 decades, over 150 new cities built from scratch have been launched in more
than 40 countries. As this trend has intensified in recent years, scholarship on new city …

While research on new cities is emerging across African cities, focusing on housing,
infrastructure, and service provision, little is known about walking accessibility for residents …

Sub-Saharan African cities have experienced significant spatial transformation in recent
years. This transformation, in part, has been characterised by the proliferation of new cities …

Mushrooming new city developments have occurred in many develo** countries in the
past two decades, which generate profound socio-economic, environmental, and politico …

In recent decades, sustainability has surged as a pivotal topic in academic discourse, driven
by heightened global awareness of its critical role in addressing climate change, biodiversity …

Master plans have long been criticized by critical planners who have argued in favour of
more strategic, collaborative and relational forms of spatial planning that can more …

Megaprojects have been associated with persistent underperformance technically,
financially, socially and environmentally. This underperformance has been attributed to the …

Land ownership is given little attention in scholarly accounts of how and why new city
visions are mobilised and implemented in Africa. In this paper we examine the evolution of …