The road to sustainable Kigali: A contextualized analysis of the challenges

Baffoe, Gideon; Ahmad, Sohail; Bhandari,

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102838

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“…This can be measured by the percentage of the GDP that is contributed by urbanized and metropolitan areas. For example, in 2012, 40% of Rwanda's GDP was contributed by only the capital Kigali [40]. Looking at the already obvious impacts of climate change, profound transformation of urban spaces is inevitable.…”

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“…According to the World Bank (2021), Rwanda is pushing to become a Middle-Income Country by the year of 2035 and a High-Income Country in 2050 by establishing national strategies to aim at the UN's Millennium Development Goals [39], p. 202. The development can be observed by the GNI (Gross National Income) per capita, which has tripled from 2000 to 2017 [40]. According to the indicators set up in the UN's Millennium Development Goals, 53.2% of the Rwandan urban population (1.8 million) lived in slums in 2014 [41].…”

Section: Kigali Rwandamentioning

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Potentials for Sponge City Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thoms

Köster

2022

Sustainability

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Despite the growing interest in implementing sponge cities (SPC), their potential is not yet being tapped in many fast-growing Sub-Saharan African cities. This is remarkable because SPC interventions can contribute considerably to increasing water safety and availability in a city. By means of a three-stage potential assessment, this study provides the first analysis of what concrete options can be identified for implementing the SPC concept in Sub-Saharan cities. The methodology was filled with information obtained especially from expert interviews, literature reviews, and satellite imagery. Thus, the analysis also considers what obstacles impede SPC implementation, and, in particular, what technical and socioeconomic constraints need to be taken into account. The cities of Hawassa (Ethiopia), Beira (Mozambique), Kigali (Rwanda), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), and Cotonou (Benin) are examined in detail. Additionally, a local SPC implementation was conceptualized and evaluated for two districts in Ouagadougou and Cotonou. The first finding is that, when geographical and socioeconomic aspects such as climatic patterns, migration flows, health risks, and existing infrastructure are sufficiently taken into account, SPC interventions would massively help African cities to mitigate current and urgent challenges such as water scarcity and urban flooding. In terms of water safety, the second key finding is that rainwater harvesting solutions at the household level could be implemented quickly; however, there would be substantial difficulties such as lack of financing and maintenance as well as claims of ownership, especially in informal settlements and slums. Thus, it seems quite promising to directly strive for a rapid “centralization” of SPC implementation in individual neighborhoods. This neighborhood approach paves the way for SPC measures to receive public acceptance and constant maintenance. When this mosaic of implementations comes together, many individual instances of SPC implementation can help to improve urban resilience and living conditions for the city dwellers as is here demonstrated for the districts in Cotonou and Ouagadougou.

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Section: Kigali Rwandamentioning

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Potentials for Sponge City Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thoms

Köster

2022

Sustainability

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“…With a population of approximately 1.3 million, Kigali serves as the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda. Despite its size, Kigali is known for its organized and clean urban planning, as well as its efforts towards achieving sustainability and development [211].…”

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Mapping Urban Structure Types Based on Remote Sensing Data—A Universal and Adaptable Framework for Spatial Analyses of Cities

Braun,

Warth,

Bachofer

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In the face of growing 21st-century urban challenges, this study emphasizes the role of remote sensing data in objectively defining urban structure types (USTs) based on morphology. While numerous UST delineation approaches exist, few are universally applicable due to data constraints or impractical class schemes. This article attempts to tackle this challenge by summarizing important approaches dealing with the computation of USTs and to condense their contributions to the field of research within a single comprehensive framework. Hereby, this framework not only serves as a conjunctive reference for currently existing implementations, but is also independent regarding the input data, spatial scale, or targeted purpose of the mapping. It consists of four major steps: (1) the collection of suitable data sources to describe the building morphology as a key input, (2) the definition of a spatial mapping unit, (3) the parameterization of the mapping units, and (4) the final classification of the mapping units into urban structure types. We outline how these tasks can lead to a UST classification which fits the users’ needs based on their available input data. At the same time, the framework can serve as a protocol for future studies where USTs are mapped, or new approaches are presented. This article closes with an application example for three different cities to underline the flexibility and applicability of the proposed framework while maintaining maximized objectivity and comparability. We recommend this framework as a guideline for the use-specific mapping of USTs and hope to contribute to past and future research on this topic by fostering the implementation of this concept for the spatial analysis and a better understanding of complex urban environments.

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“…4. Absence of inclusive urban governance -Inclusive (or good) governance is one of the most important factors for bridging inequality in the cities of the Global South (Baffoe, Ahmad & Bhandari 2020;Desai & Potter 2013:276). Given the limit on resources that cascade down to city administrations, it is usually the higher levels of government -national or provincialthat provide a more significant direct and indirect impact on addressing urban inequality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Globalisation: Impacts and responses

Reghenzani-Kearns¹

2021

The Centre for Local Economic Development: Topics in Local Development

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The road to sustainable Kigali: A contextualized analysis of the challenges

Cited by 21 publications

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Potentials for Sponge City Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Potentials for Sponge City Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mapping Urban Structure Types Based on Remote Sensing Data—A Universal and Adaptable Framework for Spatial Analyses of Cities

Globalisation: Impacts and responses

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