Tackling urban challenges in sub-Saharan Africa through indicator-based Sustainability Assessment

10 Sep

The paper was presented as part of the 52nd ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Durban (SA) in September 2016. It is published in the Congress proceedings. Download the paper. This paper examines the scientific background and practical possibilities of indicator-based sustainability assessment in urban sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed method acts as a platform for site and project selections as well …

BSc Thesis ‘Urban Framework’

04 Sep

The project ‘Urban Framework’ started as a bachelor project at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Technical University Braunschweig (GER), and was supervised by Prof. Vanessa M. Carlow. The thesis was submitted in September 2015. Download methodology presentation. Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, faces the same problems as many other cities on the African continent. Fast urbanisation rates and population growth …