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CAC610S - COMPARATIVE AFRICAN CITIES - 1ST OPP - JUNE 2022 |
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nAm I BIA un IVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND SPATIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND SPATIAL SCIENCES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BTAR
LEVEL: 6
COURSE CODE: CAC610S
DATE: JUNE 2022
DURATION: 3 HOURS
COURSE NAME: COMPARATIVE AFRICAN CITIES
PAPER: Theory
MARKS: 100
LECTURERS:
MODERATOR:
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
Jane Gold (jgold@nust.na)
Nadine Korrubel (nkorrubel@nust.na)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer all the questions.
2. You may answer the questions in any order.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 4 PAGES (Including this front page)
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Question 1
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Study the picture below of a large city in Africa.
Discuss how the city can be described as two cities in one place. You need to refer to the
structure, function and form.
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Question 2
Explain how the continent will be facing significant development challenges by 2050, by using the
current growth trends predicted for Africa?
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Question 3
Draw, describe and label a traditional village of Gungundlovu {the place of the elephant - a Zulu
village)
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Question 4
Discussthe socio-economic impact on Africa by the colonialists whose actions were described as
a "Mad Scramble for Africa" during between 1750 and 1800.
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Question 5
Describe in your own words what is meant by the following terms:
a) Circular migration
b) Counter-urbanisation
c) Slave
d) Contract labourer
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Question 6
Sue Parnell responds to questions in a video on her book Africa's Urban Revolution.
Provide five {5) arguments she holds on the economic potential of African cities and why she
considers its future "opportunely urban".
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Question 7
The slums in Lagos are forced out into the shallow waters of the lagoon and there is a scarcity of
place for the construction of schools in the village of Makoko. Discussthe solution provided by
local entrepreneurs to build a school close to the community.
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Question 8
Discussthe four major traditional planning principles commonly found in pre-colonial
settlements in Africa.
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Question 9
Explain how the colonial's used growth and development to reinforce their own economic
interests.
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Question 10
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Development Workshop Namibia (2017) explores ways to make Namibian urban development
more socially just and inclusive in the report Informal Settlements in Namibia: Their Nature and
Growth.
Motivate five (5) of the recommendations made in the report that are essential to manage
challenges of informal settlement growth and scale up orderly development of towns.
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TOTAL MARKS
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