TY  - JOUR
KW  - planning
KW  -  climate change
KW  -  adaptation
KW  -  Africa
KW  -  experimentation
TI  - Viewpoint: Planning for climate change in the African city
SP  - 257 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2014.23
AV  - public
EP  -  264
JF  - International Development Planning Review
N1  - © Liverpool University Press 2015.
SN  - 1474-6743
ID  - discovery1432931
VL  - 36
N2  - In this viewpoint I argue for a perspective on climate change in African cities that focuses on challenges and also opportunities for action. Delivering climate change adaptation in cities in the first instance requires addressing immediate infrastructure and service provision needs, because increasing climate change resilience in cities also requires improving the delivery of services to all citizens. However, there is a risk that climate change discourses facilitate the deployment of technocratic, expert-led forms of planning, particularly when climate change is used as an excuse to facilitate the intervention of international planning consultants who most often know little about the local context of planning. This paper advocates instead approaches to climate change action that harness opportunities on the ground to engage with the creative potential that urban citizens already have and to draw attention to the need to develop planning skills from within the city.
Y1  - 2014///
A1  - Broto, VC
IS  - 3
ER  -