Understanding African New Towns: An Urban Planning Perspective

In this film, we discuss New Towns as an urban typology, New Towns across Africa from a historical perspective, and the spatial challenges we see in the current generation. Based on this understanding, we can look for new ways to develop New Towns that address the challenges we identified here. The next film in this series discusses the adaptive planning and design principles presented in the book “To Build a City in Africa: A History and a Manual“ (INTI/nai010, 2019). The film was created by Rachel Keeton (research, narration) and Krithika Samavedula (graphic design, animation). It provides a summary of the first phase of research conducted by Rachel Keeton during her Ph.D. at the Urbanism Department of TU Delft. This Ph.D. was funded by the Delft Global Initiative () and completed in 2020.