Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone: Knowledge Co-Production and Partnerships for a Just City
Editat de Joseph M. Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2024
With a population of over one million, Freetown, Sierra Leone faces serious challenges with service provisions, housing, infrastructure, employment, and climate change. In 2015, the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC) was established to address these challenges through research, capacity building, and advocacy. Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone shares SLURC’s progress, articulating its key findings and reflections on the partnerships it helped enable.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800086869
ISBN-10: 1800086865
Pagini: 398
Ilustrații: 51 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
ISBN-10: 1800086865
Pagini: 398
Ilustrații: 51 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Notă biografică
Joseph M. Macarthy is executive director of the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre. Braima Koroma is director of research and training at the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre. Andrea Rigon is professor of participatory development planning at UCL and will soon join the Polytechnic of Milan. Alexandre Apsan Frediani is the principal researcher at the Human Settlements Group of the International Institute for Environment and Development, in London. Andrea Klingel is director of operations at the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre.
Cuprins
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
Part 1: Setting the scene
1 Knowledge co-production and equitable partnership in Urban Africa
Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
2 An introduction to the city of Freetown
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
2.1 Editorial position on the use of the terms ‘slums’ and ‘informal settlements’
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
2.2 Informal settlement profiles: Cockle Bay, Dworzark, Portee-Rokupa and Moyiba
Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
3 The story of SLURC
Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Part 2: Knowledge Contributions
4 Urban livelihoods
Andrea Rigon, Braima Koroma, Julian Walker
5 Understanding Freetown’s urban health priorities and challenges: six years of health research at SLURC 2016-2022
Annie Wilkinson, Abu Conteh, Joseph M Macarthy
6 Freetown development trajectory from a sustainable mobility perspective
Daniel Oviedo, Clémence Cavoli, Alexandria Z W Chong, Yasmina Yusuf, Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy
7 The strategic importance of knowledge production on assistive technology, disability and informality: The rATA survey in Thompson Bay and Dworzark, Freetown
Hawanatu Bangura, Braima Koroma, Ignacia Ossul Vermehren, Julian Walker
8 Resilient or just city-making? Exploring the political space to tackle risk traps in Freetown
Adriana Allen, Braima Koroma, Emmanuel Osuteye, Rita Lambert
9 Community-led planning in Freetown
Beatrice De Carli, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy
10 Exploring the role of empowerment in urban humanitarian responses in Freetown
Joseph M Macarthy, Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Milimer Morgado
Part 3: Learning and action
11 Research-based trainings
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
12 Crafting environmental justice through co-learning
Rita Lambert, Pascale Hofmann, Julia Wesely, Adriana Allen, Amadu Labor
13 Freetown through a citizens’ media lens: participatory photography for inclusive neighbourhood planning and beyond Alexander Macfarlane and Alexander Stone
14 The development and running of the massive open online course in development and planning in African cities
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Joanna Stroud, Alexander Stone
15 The role of community action area planning in expanding the participatory capabilities of the urban poor
Joseph M Macarthy and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
16 City and community learning platforms: institutionalising knowledge spaces towards inclusive informal settlement upgrading Camila Cociña, Stephanie Butcher, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
Part 4: Learning through SLURC
17 SLURC work in the global context
Michael Walls
18 Urban transformations and SLURC: learning, understanding, and impact
Blessing Uchenna Mberu
19 Knowledge exchange as activism
Nancy Odendaal
20 My journey working with SLURC: experiences and impact
Francis Anthony Reffell
21 Learning experiences from SLURC
Yirah O Conteh
22 The four cities initiatives - ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’: a funder’s perspective
Irene Vance
23 SLURC: a reflection from the national government perspective
Alphajoh Cham
Appendix: Protocols for research partnerships
Glossary
Index
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
Part 1: Setting the scene
1 Knowledge co-production and equitable partnership in Urban Africa
Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
2 An introduction to the city of Freetown
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
2.1 Editorial position on the use of the terms ‘slums’ and ‘informal settlements’
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
2.2 Informal settlement profiles: Cockle Bay, Dworzark, Portee-Rokupa and Moyiba
Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
3 The story of SLURC
Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Part 2: Knowledge Contributions
4 Urban livelihoods
Andrea Rigon, Braima Koroma, Julian Walker
5 Understanding Freetown’s urban health priorities and challenges: six years of health research at SLURC 2016-2022
Annie Wilkinson, Abu Conteh, Joseph M Macarthy
6 Freetown development trajectory from a sustainable mobility perspective
Daniel Oviedo, Clémence Cavoli, Alexandria Z W Chong, Yasmina Yusuf, Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy
7 The strategic importance of knowledge production on assistive technology, disability and informality: The rATA survey in Thompson Bay and Dworzark, Freetown
Hawanatu Bangura, Braima Koroma, Ignacia Ossul Vermehren, Julian Walker
8 Resilient or just city-making? Exploring the political space to tackle risk traps in Freetown
Adriana Allen, Braima Koroma, Emmanuel Osuteye, Rita Lambert
9 Community-led planning in Freetown
Beatrice De Carli, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Braima Koroma, Joseph M Macarthy
10 Exploring the role of empowerment in urban humanitarian responses in Freetown
Joseph M Macarthy, Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Milimer Morgado
Part 3: Learning and action
11 Research-based trainings
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
12 Crafting environmental justice through co-learning
Rita Lambert, Pascale Hofmann, Julia Wesely, Adriana Allen, Amadu Labor
13 Freetown through a citizens’ media lens: participatory photography for inclusive neighbourhood planning and beyond Alexander Macfarlane and Alexander Stone
14 The development and running of the massive open online course in development and planning in African cities
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M Macarthy, Joanna Stroud, Alexander Stone
15 The role of community action area planning in expanding the participatory capabilities of the urban poor
Joseph M Macarthy and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
16 City and community learning platforms: institutionalising knowledge spaces towards inclusive informal settlement upgrading Camila Cociña, Stephanie Butcher, Joseph M Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel
Part 4: Learning through SLURC
17 SLURC work in the global context
Michael Walls
18 Urban transformations and SLURC: learning, understanding, and impact
Blessing Uchenna Mberu
19 Knowledge exchange as activism
Nancy Odendaal
20 My journey working with SLURC: experiences and impact
Francis Anthony Reffell
21 Learning experiences from SLURC
Yirah O Conteh
22 The four cities initiatives - ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’: a funder’s perspective
Irene Vance
23 SLURC: a reflection from the national government perspective
Alphajoh Cham
Appendix: Protocols for research partnerships
Glossary
Index