Bücher von Ambe J. Njoh

The units of analysis roughly correspond with the major United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, Middle-East and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

French urban planning ideology, principles and practice were not exported exclusively to territories under French colonial suzerainty. Accordingly, the book focuses on major physical and spatial planning schemes inspired by French planning thought in territories without a history of French colonialism.

Established indicators of development suggest that, as a group, African countries lag behind their counterparts in other regions with respect to public health. This book suggests non-financial factors as the source of sanitation problems on the continent, and argues the need to re-connect urban planning to public health.