Africa Drawn: 100 Cities

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

The urbanisation of the African continent is advancing rapidly, while African cities and metropolitan regions are among the fastest growing in the world. Africa Drawn presents one hundred of the most connected and important cities of the continent.

 A visual feast of 300 images and masterfully drawn plans illustrate contemporary and historical place-making actions in Africa, the approach of this book is an effort to map the urban form and structure of African cities, and to describe and illustrate how these different places were formed. Therefore, it presents the historic character of African locations as a valuable resource for imagining the future of the continent's cities.

The result is a fascinating documentation of African urban space and at the same time a convincing analysis of its structure and morphology. The drawings are accompanied by introductory texts and, for the first time, render possible a comparison of diversity of ­urban form on the continent.

Anja was one of the main researchers for this publication.

DOM Publishers, 2015