Discuss the main challenges facing the achievement of sustainable urbanization in Africa?

Question

Discuss the main challenges facing the achievement of sustainable urbanization in Africa?

Answer 1

Just like in the developed world, sustainable urbanization requires raw materials (food, water supply, building materials), transportation infrastructure (roads and bridges), planning and vision (bright people to develop a city master plan), capital, and attention to wastes, emissions, and environmental quality.

A lot of these elements are hard to find in Africa, even in the non-urban areas.

Key to successful sustainable urban development in Africa is that planners not imitate what afluent or Western cities look like.  Highways need to be designed for bus transport, raw material transport, and bicycles rather than cars, cars, and more cars.