(Room W2-5).

This session will explore the importance of explicit urbanization strategies at a Continental and national level to both promote and support integrated 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 Prof Edgar Pieterse and Prof 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 network—the Urban Innovations Workshop—convened by the ACC since 2008.