This article explores the forms of popular politics that rose out of massive student protests in South Africa at the end of 2015. By delving deeper into the way higher education has been structured in post-apartheid South Africa, the author explains the ways in which race and class privilege have been reified in South African…
Urbanisation Template
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About the Urbanisation format
Urbanisation is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Urban Planning and Governance, Water Governance and Infrastructure.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Urbanisation, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Planning and Governance Water Governance and Infrastructure South Asian Studies and Conflicts Social and Economic Development in India |
| ISSN | 2455-7471 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.41 |
| h-index | 15 |
| i10-index | 27 |
| Total citations | 998 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Centre for Policy Research |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com |
| You get | A submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit. |
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Most-cited papers in Urbanisation
The study of Africa’s new developments and satellite cities has been mostly led under the fundamentally aesthetic typology of ‘urban fantasies’. This provides important elements for a critique of how speculative idioms have been tainting contemporary forms of urban development across the continent, but it does not allow us to apprehend them as modes of…
This article uses the concepts of human carrying capacity and natural capital to develop a framework to evaluate a city’s ‘ecological footprint’. It argues that prevailing economic assumptions regarding urbanisation and the sustainability of cities must be revised in light of global ecological change.
Narratives around slums tend to amplify their negative attributes, often based on a sensorial assessment of their environment. This article talks about a study carried out in Kibera, the second largest slum in Africa located in Nairobi, Kenya, which examines how slums are morphologically constituted with respect to their socio-economic settings. The study stems from…
The relationship between urbanisation and development is a vital policy concern, especially in Africa and Asia. This article reviews the arguments and evidence for whether rapid urban population growth can help to raise living standards. The main finding is that the development effects of urbanisation and the magnitude of agglomeration economies are very variable. There…