The People’s Process: Tapping into Sustainable Water Governance in Yangon’s Informal Settlements

In an increasingly conflict-ridden world, ensuring sustainable access to essential services for vulnerable populations presents a considerable challenge. Existing best practices for sustainable development, including participatory processes and community-led, collaborative governance structures, often overlook applications in conflict settings....

The new arrival city of Addis Ababa: Creating resilient urban clusters for city's dwellers and newcomers

Ethiopia alone is one of the most rapidly growing countries not only in the continent of Africa but also in the whole world. The country is populated by almost 110 million inhabitants and only 20% of the whole population is living in the cities. Over 65% of the population from rural areas have started to follow the migration patterns from rural...

Praying for Water: The Mosque as a Catalyst Towards a Decentralized Water Supply System in the Informal Urban Settlements of Bandung, Indonesia

Praying for Water deals with several water related challenges in Bandung’s informal urban areas, first and foremost the lack of safe drinking water and proper sanitation. Although being based on the proposal for a decentralized water supply system, a rather holistic solution approach is followed. Beyond the use of appropriate technical...

A Corridor towards sustainable urban development: Maputo Metropolitan Area, Mozambique

A corridor towards sustainable urban development is a reflection about the current planning techniques and how to apply them in the African context, specifically in Mozambique. It aims to raise awareness about the necessity of an understanding and adapting of European urban theories to the context conditionants and strong cultural identity of the...

Mafundi Expo: Presenting an Alternative Housing Typology to the Informal Craftsmen of Dar es Salaam

Housing supply in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by self-help housing in informal settlements as a consequence of rapid urban population growth in the absence of sufficient formal housing supply, bringing forth sub-standard housing conditions. Government housing strategies have not been able to halt the informal production of housing, as...