
Urban Infrastructure: Land Values, Housing & Transport
The ACC is hosting a one-year research project funded by UK DfID to examine how public authorities can use rising land values to finance better, high-capacity urban infrastructure in selected African cities. A team of academics and practitioners is preparing background materials and case studies. The research is led by ACC adjunct professors Ian Palmer […]
Read MoreThe ACC is hosting a one-year research project funded by UK DfID to examine how public authorities can use rising land values to finance better, high-capacity urban infrastructure in selected African cities. A team of academics and practitioners is preparing background materials and case studies. The research is led by ACC adjunct professors Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford.
The work is divided into 3 main ‘sub-themes’:
Land markets as a source of finance for cities
- The status of urban land markets in 2-3 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Is urban land properly valued in these countries?
- To what extent are public authorities in these countries proving able to use rising land values in urban areas which can be used to finance better, higher-capacity urban infrastructure?
- In these countries, what are the principal barriers to developing better functioning land markets?
- Are these findings broadly applicable in Sub-Saharan Africa? What is the role of donor and development actors in helping to overcome these barriers?
Impact of finance additional finance on infrastructure
- To what extent is the additional finance available through increasing land values used to develop improved infrastructure?
- Where authorities are able to do this, are they using the finance raised to fund infrastructure that is likely to enhance the city’s productivity and job-creation potential and / or benefit low income groups?
Planning and regulation
- In the case study countries, do public authorities use master plans and district plans to shape the space, density and land use patterns of the first and second and third tier cities? Are there regulations on zoning and density? If yes, are these regulations appropriate to increase the city’s potential for productivity and job creation? Compare outcomes in cities with no or little planning to those with structured planning processes.
- In these countries, what are the principal barriers to developing improved planning and regulations? Discuss the extent to which these findings are more broadly applicable in Sub-Saharan Africa. What is the role of donor and development actors in helping to overcome these barriers?
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford
August 7, 2015African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
Urban Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa – Harnessing Land Values, Housing and Transport Symposium on research findings – Cape Town, 20 & 21 July 2015 Powerpoint slide presentations from the ACC’s end-of-project symposium on urban infrastructure finance. The research was supported by the UK Department for International Development (DfID), July 2014 – July 2015. […]
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford
September 4, 2015Urban Infrastructure in sub-Saharan African Cities
During 2014/15, with support from DfID, the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town carried out a study to explore the extent to which cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are harnessing urban land values to finance city infrastructure. The year-long research programme generated several reports, twelve of which are available here. Click on the Report titles […]
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Ian Palmer, Stephen Berrisford
August 7, 2015African Urban Infrastructure Symposium
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Stephen Berrisford, Ian Palmer
May 24, 2015Land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
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April 16, 2015
Information-sharing workshop: DfID-supported urban land and finance initiatives relating to Sub-Saharan Africa
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April 30, 2015
Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: literature reviews
Three Preliminary Reports are available as part of the Inception Phase of the research project “Urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa – harnessing land values”
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