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1. Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa

   By John Abbott

   This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sharing the City

   Community Participation in Urban Management

   By John Abbott

   While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend. Non-governmental organisations working in the field have long advocated community management...

   Published January 31st 1996 by Routledge