{"id":200101,"date":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?p=200101"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:56:32","slug":"test-title-1-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?p=200101","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;State of African Cities,&#8221; Research for Regional Chapter on North African Cities for UN-Habitat Reports, 2008 and 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\" style=\"font-size:12px\">In 2008, a team from I2UD prepared research for regional chapters on Northern Africa for the first<strong> UN-Habitat &#8220;State of African Cities&#8221;<\/strong> report. Topics covered demographics and urban growth, cities as engines of economic growth, urban poverty and housing conditions, environmental challenges in urban areas, and urban governance. Countries addressed in the North Africa regional chapter included <strong>Algeria<\/strong>, <strong>Egypt<\/strong>, <strong>Libya<\/strong>, <strong>Mauritania<\/strong>, <strong>Morocco<\/strong>, <strong>Tunisia<\/strong>, and <strong>Sudan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Documents include I2UD&#8217;s <strong>North Africa<\/strong> regional report for the 2008 State of African Cities report, as well as two full State of African Cities documents from 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-subtle-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><tbody><tr><td>Project Year:<\/td><td>2008-2010<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Project Type:<\/td><td>Research Paper<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Geographic Regions:<\/td><td>North Africa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Reports:<\/td><td><br><ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/docs_p\/2008\/2008_03_001\/State_of_African_Cities_North_Africa_Region_Final_Report_July_2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">State of African Cities: North Africa Region (I2UD, Final Report, July 2008)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>&#8212;<br><ul> <li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/docs_p\/2008\/2008_03_001\/State_of_African_Cities_Full_Report_2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">State of African Cities: (Full Report, 2008)<\/a><\/li><br><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/docs_p\/2008\/2008_03_001\/State_of_African_Cities_Full_Report_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">State of African Cities: (Full Report, 2010)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Authors:<\/td><td>Mona Serageldin; Fran\u00e7ois Vigier; Christa Lee-Chuvala; Erick Guerra<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sponsors:<\/td><td>United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Categories:<\/td><td>Urban Planning<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ID:<\/td><td>2008_03_001<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Related I2UD Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-91fb4f2e-c403-43fd-af4f-b15d76cbcc36\" data-mobilecollapse=\"false\" data-desktopcollapse=\"true\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion\">\n                <div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title-wrap\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-91fb4f2e-c403-43fd-af4f-b15d76cbcc36\" tabindex=\"0\">\n                    <p class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title ub-content-toggle-title-91fb4f2e-c403-43fd-af4f-b15d76cbcc36\">Related I2UD Photograph Galleries<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-toggle-wrap right\"><span class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-state-indicator wp-block-ub-chevron-down\"><\/span>\n                    <\/div><\/div><div role=\"region\" class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-content-wrap ub-hide\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-91fb4f2e-c403-43fd-af4f-b15d76cbcc36\">\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:12px\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?page_id=22663\" class=\"ek-link\">I2UD Photograph Collection, Gallery 1: Algeria: Algiers (1987-1988)<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?page_id=21325\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">I2UD Photograph Collection, Galleries 6-7: Egypt: Cairo\u00a0and\u00a0Helwan (1986, 1990)<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?page_id=27385\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">I2UD Photograph Collection, Gallery 10: Morocco: Fes,\u00a0Casablanca, and\u00a0Rabat (1983-1993)<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?page_id=22883\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ek-link\">I2UD Photograph Collection, Gallery 13: Tunisia: Tunis (1978-1990)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_typography_data":{"meta":{"disabled":true}},"_editorskit_blocks_typography":"","_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","ub_ctt_via":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[443,1317,13,1748,158,34,1876,159,161,82,1891,160,33,1857,214],"tags":[1577,1519,1531,1686,1620,1543,1545,1606,1563,1580,1498,1557,1685,1530,1559,1568,1532],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"lib1","author_link":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200101"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228874,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200101\/revisions\/228874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/library.i2ud.org\/library\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}