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Urban growth and urban policy in Tunisia in Citadins, villes, urbanisation dans le Monde Arabe aujourd'hui.

Doubts and directions in Nigerian urban policy
An examination of rural-urban relations is critical of the lack of co-ordination, and suggests that self-help programmes in the towns and back-to-the-land schemes can have limited effects. - (EMS)

Die geograaf in die praktyk van stedelike beplanning The geographer in urban planning practice
Geographers in planning practice in South Africa are restricted in the areas of employment by a lack of training in urban and regional planning. - (AJC)

Public policy and the dynamics of urban settlement system in Nigeria
The high growth rate of urban population has brought many problems. To solve these, the authors suggest that at both macro-and micro-level governement policy should be combined with public participation. (EMS).

Urban growth and its impact on Nigeria's agricultural manpower
The effect of urban pull on a declining agricultural man-power is studied in detail in three villages in Western Nigeria. If the trend is to be altered rural industries and socio-economic infrastructures must be improved. (EMS).

Environmental sanitation in the urban areas of Nigeria
The rapid change from a predominantly rural to an urban society has created serious problems in the cities which can only be alleviated by self-help schemes and by a co-ordinated policy of development. (EMS).

Urbanisierung und Entwicklungsplanung in Ghana. Eine wirtschafts-und sozialräumliche Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entstehung, Problematik und Uberwindung innerstädtischer und regionaler Ungleichgewichte Urbanization
and development planning in Ghana. A spatial analysis with special reference to the historical roots, recent problems and planned reduction of intra-urban and regional disparities
Part A of the book represents a detailed study on the colonial determinants of and forces behind urban and regional features, structures and processes. The more recent trends of urbanization are dealt with in Part B concentrating on demographic
shifts and their interpretation, functional and socio-cultural linkages between urban and rural areas, and rural-urban migration. Part C first discusses significant urban problems, e. g. underemployment and unemployment, housing problems and the emergence
of slums and uncontrolled squatter areas. The final Part D contains a description and critical analysis of Ghana's present regional and urban planning strategies and their prospects thereby including into the conception of evaluation not only the national

Population growth, distribution and density changes, and urbanization in Zimbabwe : a preliminary assessment following the 1982 Census
Zimbabwe's population geography dynamics are examined, typifying sub-Saharan trends in certain respects, but locally modified by the colonial heritage of commercial farmland and a semi-developed system of urban places.

Political manipulation of urban space : the razing of District Six, Cape Town in Urbanization in South Africa.

Some aspects of the urban climates of tropical Africa in Urban climatology and its applications with special regard to tropical areas.

Urbanization, urbanism and the Medina of Tunis in Sociology of developing societies.

John Turner's theory of intra-urban mobility and the African reality. Examples from East and West Africa
The purpose of this paper is to discover whether Turner's Latin American model of intra-urban mobility also applies to Sub-Saharan Africa. The often temporary nature of rural-to-urban migration, the operation of ethnic networks in the city, the role