Creative cities in Africa: critical architecture and urbanism

Abstract

This collection seeks to frame critical approaches to architecture and urbanism, exploring new and alternative disciplinary forms of writing, thinking and making the city. Beyond the current debates, the work of authors in this collection variously surface patterns of critical interdisciplinary thought and historicize this in relation to debates in African Studies, historical and heritage studies as well as in the creative arts and popular culture realms. Creative Cities in Africa will examine how the built environment and its complex relationship to aesthetics, art and design, were part of the historical processes of city building or city transformation.