Urban Trajectories: Comparing Integration, Enclaving and Development in Africa and China (workshop)

Organised by the international and multidisciplinary research project, Urban Enclaving Futures, in this workshop Nordic, European and African researchers met with scholars from Fudan University to comparatively discuss the development and trajectories of urbanisation and housing markets in the African cities the Urban Enclaving Futures project focuses on: Accra (Ghana), Johannesburg (South Africa) and Maputo (Mozambique). This was compared with trends in contemporary China, and focus on how local families, real estate developers, (inter)national companies and state agencies navigate the housing market.