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dc.contributor.authorMoser, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorCote-Roy, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorKorah, Prosper Issahaku
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-23T01:57:53Z
dc.date.available2021-09-23T01:57:53Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn0272-3638
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02723638.2021.1916698
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/408254
dc.description.abstractOver a dozen countries in Africa are currently constructing more than 70 new cities from scratch. There has been a recent surge of scholarship on the role of Chinese investors in urban projects in Africa, particularly as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. However, there are other powerful foreign actors from emerging economies engaged in new city building, including state-owned companies, that have received little scholarly attention to date, leaving a broader research gap on the implications of their growing role in contemporary African urbanism. In this article, we highlight some of these uncharted foreign actors and the urban models they are circulating and propose three directions for future research on: the mechanisms through which foreign actors have become powerful players in new city building in Africa; the types of urban models they are introducing and their local adaptations; and the geopolitics of foreign interventions in urban mega-developments across Africa.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge: Taylor & Francis Group
dc.relation.ispartofjournalUrban Geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban and regional planning
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban design
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440612
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3304
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330411
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciences
dc.subject.keywordsGeography
dc.subject.keywordsUrban Studies
dc.subject.keywordsNew cities
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican urbanism
dc.titleThe uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMoser, S; Cote-Roy, L; Korah, PI, The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building, Urban Geography, 2021
dc.date.updated2021-09-23T01:54:37Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKorah, Prosper I.


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