Under the topic "African Urban Futures: Promoting Urbanization Strategies"the ACC will be hosting an event at the World Urban Forum to be held in Rio, Brazil on Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 14:00-16:00 (Room W2-5). The session will explore the importance of explicit urbanization strategies at a Continental and national level to both promote and support city-level urban growth and management strategies. It premised on the assumption that pan-African bodies and national governments have ignored the urban question for too long. The session will explore the arguments and recommendations of three papers that deal with what, ideally, pan-African and national urbanization strategies should contain. The session will be lead by Edgar Pieterse and David Simon, two of the four contributors that have prepared papers for the event. The event is a follow-up instalment to an open-ended networkthe Urban Innovations Workshopconvened by the ACC.

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