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Many of Africa's planners and local authorities still labour to develop cities along the lines of European planning models that are now vastly superseded by the specific challenges of African urbanism. Vanessa Watson and Babatunde Agbola discuss how the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) hopes to transform the continent's planning paradigm starting with the professional education system.

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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.

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