Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa (eBook)

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.

Professor Timothy 'Gbenga Nubi leads the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos. He was Dean, Faculty of Environmental Science and currently Chairman of the University's Housing Unit. He was a member of the Technical Board of Nigeria's Federal Housing Authority (FHA), and member, Board of Trustees of the Real Estate Development Association of Nigeria (REDAN). He has over 60 publications detailing his policy, academic and practice experience.

Professor Isobel Anderson is Chair in Housing Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom. She currently leads the Home, Housing and Community Research Programme and is Chief Examiner for the MSc/Diploma in Housing Studies, while also chairing the University's Academic Panel for Postgraduate Research Students. She has held more than 40 research awards and has published widely for scholarly as well as practice audiences.

Dr Taibat Lawanson is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she leads the Pro-Poor Development Research Cluster and serves as Co-Director at the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development.  Her research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban realities and the quest for environmental justice. She is particularly interested in how formal and informal urban systems synthesize in emerging African contexts.

Basirat Oyalowo researches in housing and real estate studies, informality and urban sustainability, with an interest in comparative African studies. She is currently a lecturer/researcher at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is on the management team of the University of Lagos Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development. She has won international research grants and is published widely in both policy and scholarly audiences, including the Lagos Resilience Strategy released in 2020.

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There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.