![]() Cities selected for examination in this research are noted for their pioneering and dynamic approaches to planning. Examination of cities as case studies affords meaningful cross-cultural context and better opportunity to identify transformational practices in policy and planning. A regional approach to understanding the needs and addressing the issues of sustainable urban development provides opportunity to examine best practices of generating sustainability through twenty-first century efforts of planning and governance. Such rapid growth in urban population has fostered awareness for the need to address such development in a sustainable fashion. Natural increase and rural to urban migration patterns throughout Africa have resulted in striking rates of urbanization across the continent. ![]() ![]() Contributing to this remarkable transition has been the rapid population growth in cities of Africa. A watershed moment occurred in 2008 when, for the first time in human history, most of the global population could be categorized as residing in urban areas. ![]()
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