LibGuides: City and Regional Planning & Urban Design Library Guide: WEB RESOURCES

Useful web sites - African resources

African Centre for Cities The ACC aims to produce credible new knowledge on the drivers of urban crisis in African cities with an eye on systemic solutions
African Urban Research Initiative - (AURI) The African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) was initiated in 2013 to support existing and future Africa-based research centres to inform and enhance the policy actors and networks responsible for sustainable urban policy and management in different African contexts.
Association of African Planning Schools - (AAPS) The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) is a voluntary, peer-to-peer network of African institutions that educate and train urban/city and/or regional/rural planners. Our members are drawn from all regions of Africa, including the countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
City of Cape Town - Planning Portal
CSIR: Urban Knowledge Exchange - uKESA The Knowledge Exchange is a response to an identified need for increased information exchange in the Southern African region. It has been developed as a broad collaboration of partners, with the CSIR acting as the custodian. The purpose of the Urban Knowledge Exchange is to improve the delivery of better quality human settlements, towns and cities by making reliable, evidence-based knowledge more widely accessible. It encompasses thematic areas such as sustainable human settlement development and management, better infrastructure and services, access to well-located land, efficient shelter production, a more functional residential property market, improved transport networks, more equitable urban development, good governance, building resilience and responding to climate change, and promoting more affordable housing finance.

Other useful web sites

Cities Alliance Cities Alliance is the global partnership supporting cities to deliver sustainable development. As global populations and urban economies expand, managing cities and providing opportunities for all citizens is essential to national prosperity, international progress, and stability.
South African Council for Planners - (SACPLAN) South African Council for Planners (SACPLAN) is the statutory Council of nominated members appointed in terms of the Planning Profession Act, 2002 (Act 36 of 2002) by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform) to regulate the Planning Profession (Planning is both the organisational process of creating and maintaining a plan) in terms of the Act.
South African Planning Institute - (SAPI) The purpose and aim of the South African Planning Institute (SAPI) is to enhance the art and science of sustainable local, regional and national human and physical development planning, and the theory and practise relating thereto.

Information from the Internet

A large amount of information of interest to geomatics scholars and professionals is available on the internet, however when using internet resources, one should be cautious, as most websites don't undergo peer review. You need to evaluate the website you get information from.

The following tutorials provide useful information about evaluating web sites:

University of California. Berkeley Library:
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

Cornell University Library:
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools.