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• Abba, Shettima B. “Borno Towns and Their Gates.” Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 11-12 (April/May/June-July/Aug./Sept. 1992): pp. 15-24.
• Abumere, S.I. "Categorization of Nigerian Towns." The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies 37, no.1 (1995): pp. 63-74.
• Adedibu, A.A. "Socio-Economic Areas and Associated Housing Types in Ilorin, Nigeria." African Urban Quarterly 4, no.1-2 (1989): pp. 105-14.
• Adham, Khaled Nezar. The Building Border: a Hermeneutical Study in the Cultural Politics of Space in Egypt, the Case of El-Houd El-Marsoud Park in Cairo. Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1997.
• Agbola, Tunde. "The Housing Construction Process in Nigeria and Its Implication for Urban Growth and Development." African Urban Quarterly 2, no.4 (1987): pp. 398-406.
• Agbola, T. "Kaduna." Cities 3, no. 4 (1986): pp. 282-9.
• Ahmed, Heba Farouk. Pre-Colonial Modernity: The State and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Cairo's Urban Form. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
• Aïdara, Abdoul Hadar. Saint-Louis du Sénégal d'hier à aujourd'hui. Brinon-sur-Sauldre, France: Grandvaux, 2005.
• Akinbode, Ade. "Provision of Housing in a Newly Urbanizing Area: A Case Study of Ekpoma, Bendel State, Nigeria." African Urban Quarterly 4, no.1-2 (1989): pp. 123-32.
• Albert, Isaac O. "Ethnic Residential Segregation in Kano, Nigeria and its Antecedents." African Study Monographs 17, no.2 (1996): pp. 85-100.
• Alexandre, P. "Djenne, sur le Nil-des-Noirs." L'histoire 92 (1986): pp. 59-68.
• AlSayyad, Nezar. Streets of Islamic Cairo: A Configuration of Urban Themes and Patterns. Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1981.
• AlSayyad, Nezar, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.
• Armstrong, A. "Urban Planning in Developing Countries: An Assessment of Master Plans for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 7, no. 1 (1986): pp. 12-27.
• Awambeng, Christopher M. Evolution and Growth of Urban Centres in the North-West Province (Cameroon): Case Studies, Bamenda, Kumbo, Mbengwi, Nkambe, Wum. Bern: P. Lang, 1991.
• Babina, Lucia, et al. Douala in Translation: A View of the City and Its Creative Transformative Potentials. Rotterdam: Episode, 2007.
• Banton, Michael. West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
• Barrucand, Marianne. Urbanisme princier en Islam: Meknès et les villes royales islamiques post-médiévales. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1985.
• Bejeng Soh, Pius. Abakpa – Mankon – Bamenda: Creation and Evolution of an Urban Centre in a Traditional Milieu. Travaux et documents de l'institut des sciences humaines. Yaoundé: Délégation Générale à la recherché scientifique et technique, 30th May 1983.
• Belhedi, Amor. "L’aménagement du territoire entre le discours et la pratique." Revue tunisienne de géographie 27 (1995): pp. 9-35.
• Belhedi, Amor. "Espace et société en Tunisie: développement, organisation et aménagement de l’espace en Tunisie depuis l’indépendance." Revue tunisienne de géographie 18 (1990): pp. 9-54.
• Bellot, Jean-Pierre. "Dakar dans les prés de Sangalkam: l’influence de Dakar sur la proche campane: cas de la communauté rurale de Sangalkam." La péri-urbanisation dans les pays tropicaux, edited by Pierre Vennetier. Cedex: Centre d’études de géographie tropicale, 1989: pp. 5-76.
• Bernus, Edmond. "Ahouati, notes sur une village Dida." Etudes eburnéennes 6 (1957): pp. 213-229.
• Bernus, Edmond. "Kong et sa région." Études éburnéennes 8 (1960): ????.
• Bernus, Edmond. "Notes sur l’histoire de Korhogo." Bulletin IFAN 23 (B), 1-2 (1961): ????.
• Bernus, Suzanne. "Niamey: population et habitat." Études nigériennes 11, IFAN-CNRS.
• Betts, Raymond F. "Dakar: ville impériale, 1857-1960," in Colonial Cities edited by R.J. Ross and G.J. Telkamp, pp. 193-206. Comparative Studies in Overseas History 5. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985.
• Betts, Raymond F. "Establishment of the medina in Dakar, Senegal." Africa 42, no. 2 (1971): pp. 143-152.
• Betts, R.F. "Imperial Designs: French Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism edited by G.W. Johnson, pp. 191-207. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies 16. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• Bime, André. "Ségou vieille capitale." Angoulême (1952): pp. ????.
• Blair, Thomas L. "Shelter in Urbanising and Industrialising Africa," in Shelter in Africa edited by Paul Oliver, pp. 226-239. New York: Praeger, 1971.
• Bolleter, Julian, et al. "Using suitability analysis, informed by Co-Design, to assess contextually appropriate urban growth models in Gulu, Uganda." Journal of Urban Design 27, no. 2 (2022): pp. 245-269.
• Boro, M. "Bangui: ville coloniale, 1889-1958," in Villes et problèmes urbains contemporains en Afrique noire. Recherches en histoire contemporaine. Informations diverses. Activités du Groupe de Recherches ‘Afrique Noire' du L.A. 363, ‘Tiers-Monde, Afrique: les sociétés dans leur histoire et leur environnement' (secteur Paris VII), pp. 47-55. Groupe ‘Afrique Noire' 7. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1984.
• Boulvert, Y. "Le site de Bangui-Zongo," in Villes et problèmes urbains contemporains en Afrique noire. Recherches en histoire contemporaine. Informations diverses. Activités du Groupe de Recherches ‘Afrique Noire' du L.A. 363, ‘Tiers-Monde, Afrique: les sociétés dans leur histoire et leur environnement' (secteur Paris VII), pp. 56-70. Groupe ‘Afrique Noire' 7. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1984.
• Bourouiba, Rachid. Cités disparus: Tahert, Sedrata, Achir, Kalaâ des Béni-Hammad. Collection Art et Culture 14. Algiers: Ministère de l'information, 1982.
• Bourouiba, Rachid. Constantine. Collection Art et Culture 13. Algiers: S.N.E.D., 1978.
• Bourouiba, Rachid. Oran. Collection Art et Culture. Algiers: Ministère de l'information et de la culture, 1983.
• Brasseur, Gérard. "Djenne, centre urbain traditionnel." Compte Rendu CIAO Ve réunion, Abidjan, 1953, pp. ????. Abidjan: Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, 1953.
• Brasseur, Gérard. Les Etablissements humains au Mali. Mémoires IFAN 83. Dakar: IFAN, 1968. [Review by Geneviève Calame-Griaule available online in Journal de la société des africanistes 39, no. 2 (1969): p. 246.]
• Brasseur, Gérard. "Étude de géographie régionale: le village de Ténetou." Bulletin IFAN (1961): pp. ????.
• Brennan, E.M. and H.W. Richardson. "Urbanization and Urban Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa." African Urban Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): pp. 20-42.
• Chabbi, M. "Habitat ‘sous-integré' et recherche urbaine française en Tunisie," in Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective. Franco-British Symposium, London, 10-14 May 1984 edited by K. Brown, et. al., pp. 181-8. London: Ithaca Press, 1986.
• Chenal Jérôme. The West African City: Urban Space and Models of Urban Planning. Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press, 2014.
• Chenal, Jérôme and Vincent Kaufmann. "City Profile: Nouakchott." Cities 25, no. 3 (2008): pp. 163-175.
• Chokor, B.A. "Ibadan." Cities 3, no. 2 (1986): pp. 106-16.
• Christin, Olivier and Armelle Filliat. "Abidjan: Un urbanisme capital," in Architectures françaises outre-mer: Abidjan, Agadir, Alep, Alger, Bangui, Beyrouth, Brazzaville, Cansado, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Damas, Hanoi, Libreville, Niamey, Orleansville, Ouagadougou, Riyadh, Tananarive, Tunis, Yaoundé, pp. 239-257. Collection Villes. Liège: Mardaga, 1992.
• Cooperstock, Aryeh. Urban Development in Cameroon: Possible Initiatives for USAID. Washington, DC: Rivkin Associates, 1981.
• Coquery, M. "La notion de ‘mode de composition urbaine': un outil opération en urbanisme. Le cas de l'Afrique noire, Pt. 2," in Villes et problèmes urbains contemporains en Afrique noire. Recherches en histoire contemporaine. Informations diverses. Activités du Groupe de Recherches ‘Afrique Noire' du L.A. 363, ‘Tiers-Monde, Afrique: les sociétés dans leur histoire et leur environnement' (secteur Paris VII), pp. 71-80. Groupe ‘Afrique Noire' 7. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1984.
• Cresti, Federico. "Le système de l'eau à Alger pendant la période ottomane (XVIème-XIXème siècles)," Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (Rome) 12 (1992): pp. 42-53.
• Cupers, Kenny and Prita Meier. "Infrastructure between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway." JSAH: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 1 (March 2020): pp. 61-81.
• Daoulatli, Abdelaziz. Tunis sous les Hafsides: Evolution urbaine et activité architecturale. Tunis: Insitut National d’archeologie et d’art, 1976.
• DeLancey, Mark D. “Moving East, Facing West: Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto Caliphate,” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola, pp. 3-21. Rochester Studies in African History & the Diaspora 21. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005.
• Delmond, P. "Dans la boucle du Niger, Dori ville peule." Mélanges ethnologique, pp. ????. Mem. IFAN 23. Dakar: IFAN, 1953.
• Delmont, Elizabeth. "Re-envisioning Greater Johannesburg: South African Heritage Development in the First Decade of Democracy." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 30-35, 94.
• Demissie, Fassil. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories Design and the built environment series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. [Reviewed by Darby Morris in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): 260-261.]
• Dione, Marème. "Dakar au fil des plans," in Architectures françaises outre-mer: Abidjan, Agadir, Alep, Alger, Bangui, Beyrouth, Brazzaville, Cansadon, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Damas, Hanoi, Libreville, Niamey, Orleansville, Ouagadougou, Riyadh, Tananarive, Tunis, Yaoundé, pp. 220-237. Liège: Mardaga, 1992.
• Diop, Momar Coumba and Mamadou Diouf. "Pouvoir central et pouvoir local: la crise de l’institution municipale au Sénégal." Pouvoirs et cités d’Afrique noire: décentralisations en questions, edited by Sylvy Jaglin and Alain Dubresson. Paris: Karthala, 1993: pp. 101-25.
• Dlala, Habib. "Bizerte: les grands partis d’aménagement." Revue tunisienne de géographie 27 (1995): pp. 107-41.
• Drakakis-Smith, D. "Urbanisation in the Socialist Third World: The Case of Zimbabwe," in Urbanisation in the Developing World edited by D. Drakakis-Smith, pp. 141-57. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
• Dzeukou, Guy Blaise. Code de l’urbanisme, de la construction et de l’habitat. Bafoussam, Cameroun: Éditions juridiques camerounaises, 2010.
• Eboumbou Jemba, Christian. Les transports urbains en Afrique: l’exemple de Douala au Cameroun. Études africaines. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012.
• Eigeland, Tor. "Re-Greening Marrakech." Saudi Aramco World 53, no. 4 (July/August 2002): pp. 28-33.
• Ekali, Thomas Ngomba. “The fluctuating fortunes of anglophone Cameroon towns: the case of Victoria, 1858-1982,” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010.
• El Shakhs, S. and H. Amirahmadi. "Urbanization and Spatial Development in Africa: Some Critical Issues." African Urban Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): pp. 3-19.
• Elleh, Nnamdi. "'Flows' into the Public Squares/Spheres in 'African Cities.'" JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 233-236.
• Fair, T.J.D. "The Urbanization Process in South Africa." RSA 2000 7, no. 1 (1985): pp. 1-6.
• Falola, Toyin and Steven J. Salm, eds. Urbanization and African Cultures. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. [Reviewed by Anne Lewinson in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 138-140.]
• Farrar, Tarikhu. Building Technology and Settlement Planning in a West African Civilization: Precolonial Akan Cities and Towns. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. [Reviewed online by Eric Ross on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3217875567020.]
• Fleury, Marie-France. "Un Village Diakhanké du Sénégal Oriental: Missirah." Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer 37, no. 145 (1984): pp. 63-86.
• Fontaine, J. "Trame villageoise traditionnelle et réseau urbain moderne: un exemple dans le Tell algérien: la wilaya de Bejaia." L'Espace Géographique 14, no. 4 (1985): pp. 258-70.
• Foster, Badi G. "Patterns of Human Encounter in Moroccan Bidonvilles," in Shelter in Africa edited by Paul Oliver, pp. 217-225. New York: Praeger, 1971.
• Foster, Jennifer Lynn. For Rent: Backyard Cape Town and the Changing Landscapes of the New South African City. Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002.
• Foulon, F. "Une nouvelle philosophie de la planification urbaine au Maghreb." L'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes 147 (1985-1986): pp. 78-91.
• Frenay, Patrick. "Le réseau urbain camerounais: caractéristiques principales, dynamique actuelle, alternatives futures." Revue belge de géographie 111, no.3-4 N.S. (1987): 105-40.
• Frishman, A. "Urban Transportation Decisions in Kano, Nigeria." African Urban Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): pp. 54-64.
• Froelich, J. C. "Niani, ancienne capitale de l’empire du Mali." Recherches africaines 1 (1969).
• Galaup, Alain. "Les villages-centres du Sénégal." Les cahiers d’Outre-Mer 44, no.174 (1991): pp. 187-206.
• "The Garden City of Foumban." UNESCO Courier (June 1993): p. 28.
• Gardi, Bernard. "Djenne at the turn of the century: postcards from the Museum fur Volkerkunde Basel." African Arts 27, no. 2 (1994): pp. 70-75.
• Gardi, Bernard, et. al. Djenné, il y a Cent Ans. Amsterdam: Institut Royal des Tropiques, Bale: Museum für Völkerkunde, Bamako: Musée National du Mali, 1995.
• Gaule, Sally. "Alternating Currents of Power: From Colonial to Post-Apartheid Spatial Patterns in Newtown, Johannesburg." Urban Studies (London) 42, no. 13 (Dec. 2005): pp. 2335-2361.
• Gaye, Malick, et al. Enjeux et défis: appui à l’assainissement semi-collectif des quartiers défavorisés de 9 villes d’Afrique francophone: retour d’expériences. Dakar: ENDA, 2013.
• Gervais-Lambony, Philippe. "Pour une analyse comparative de l’urbanité en Afrique noire: les cas de Lomé (Togo) et de Harare (Zimbabwe) à travers leurs quartiers." Année africaine (1990-91): 393-430.
• Gessain, Monique. Environnement Végétal et Anthropologie Écologique des Bassari du Sénégal Oriental: Evolution du Village d’Etyolo Depuis 1900. Ph.D. Thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 1975.
• Gessain, Monique. "Un Village de la Savane Sud-Soudanienne Etyolo en Pays Bassari." Documents du Centre Recherches Anthropologiques du Musée de l’Homme 4 (1981).
• Girard, Jean. L’or du Bambouk: Une dynamique de civilisation ouest-africaine: Du royaume de Gabou à la Casamance. Genève: Georg Editeur, 1992. [Reviewed by Andrew F. Clark in Jounral of African History (Cambridge) 35, no. 2 (1994): pp. 309-310.]
• Goerg, Odile. "Domination coloniale, construction de 'la ville' en Afrique et nomination." Afrique et histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Goerg, Odile. "Introduction." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Gormo, Jean. Maroua: histoire du reboisement d’une ville sahélienne. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2014.
• Grove, D. and L. Huszar. The Towns of Ghana. Ghana University Press, 1964.
• Guiffo, Jean-Philippe. Le droit de l’urbanisme et de la construction au Cameroun. Yaoundé: Éditions de l’Essoah, 2007.
• Gupta, D. "Urbanization in Pre-Colonial West Africa." Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 27-40.
• Haeringer, Philippe. "L'arbre dans la ville: lecture sociale en quatre tableaux du couvert végétal dans la ville africaine." Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines 17, no. 3-4 (1980): pp. 289-308.
• Hanna, Nelly. An Urban History of Bulaq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1983. Sudan." Ekistics 52, no. 313 (1985): pp. 332-7.
• Haywood, I. "Settlement Theory and the Development of Small Towns: Experience from the Gezira, Sudan," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 279-88. Bangkok, Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Hocking, S. A. "Zaria." Savanna 6, no.1 (1977).
• Home, R.K. "Urban Development Boards in Nigeria: The Case of Kano." Cities 3, no. 3 (1986): pp. 228-36.
• Hont, O. d'. "Les kebe (bidonvilles) de Nouakchott." Afrique Contemporaine 139 (1986): pp. 36-55.
• Houseman, Michael, Xavier Crepin, Christiane Massy, and Blandine Legonou. "Note sur la structure évolutive d'une ville historique: L'exemple d'Abomey (République populaire du Bénin)" Cahiers d'études africaines 26, no. 4, issue 104 (1986): pp. 527-546.
• Huet, Jean-Christophe. Villages persches des Dogon du Mali: habitat, espace et société. Paris: L’harmattan, 1994.
• Huffman, T.N. "Archaeological Evidence and Conventional Explanations of Southern Bantu Settlement Patterns." Africa 56, no. 3 (1986): pp. 280-98.
• Imoagene, S.O. "Urbanism, Urbanization and Underdevelopment: The West African Experience," in Town Talk: The Dynamics of Urban Anthropology edited by G. Ansari and P.J.M. Nas, pp. 65-83. Leiden: Brill, 1983.
• Infrastructures de transport: le grand chantier/Transportation: challenging prospects. Yaoundé: Societé de Presse et d'Editions du Cameroun, 2012.
• Jacques-Meunié, Dj. Cités anciennes de Mauritanie. Paris: Klincksieck, 1961.
• Jaglin, Silvy. "Les banlieues de Ouagadougou." Afrique Contemporaine 168 (1993): 54-66.
• Jambes, Jean-Pierre. "Typologie de l’espace urbain sahélien: le cas de la ville de Niamey." Les Cahiers d’outre-mer 49, no.195 (1996): 317-30.
• Kahimbaara, J.A. "The Population Density Gradient and the Spatial Structure of a Third World City: Nairobi, A Case Study." Urban Studies 23, no. 4 (1986): pp. 307-22.
• Kahlaoui, Tarek. “Tracing Urbanization in Early Modern Jerba,” in The Mediterranean Medina Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2009.
• Kirk-Greene, Anthony H. M. "The capitals of Northern Nigeria." Nigeria 54: pp. 243-272.
• Kirk-Greene, Anthony H. M. "Wusasa." Nigeria Magazine 75 (1962).
• Labouret, Henri. “En pays Bamoum: La ville de Foumban.” Togo-Cameroun (April/July): 111-20.
• Laghouat, M.M. "Moroccan Small Towns in Theory and Reality," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 593-605. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Lallo, Kirankumar. Citizenship, Property, and Place: Land and Housing in South Africa. Ph.D., U. of Southern California, 1998.
• Lamprakos, Michele. "Le Courbusier in Algiers: The Plan Obus as Colonial Urbanism," in Forms of Dominance on the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise edited by Nezar AlSayyad, pp. 183-210. Ethnoscapes 5. Aldershot and Brookfield: Avebury, 1992.
• Leblanc, Colette. "Un Village de la Vallée du Sénégal: Amadi-Ounare." Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer 66 (1964): pp. 117-48.
• Lézine, Alexandre. Deux Villes d’Ifriqiya: Sousse, Tunis. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1971.
• Lisowski, Andrzej. "Functional Structure of Ghanaian Towns in 1970." Africana Bulletin 36 (1990): pp. 95-108.
• Mabogunje, A.L. "Backwash Urbanization: The Peasantization of Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa," World Patterns of Modern Urban Change: Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris edited by M.P. Conzen, pp. 255-72. Research Paper 217-218. Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography, 1986.
• Mah, Kai Wood and Patrick Lynn Rivers. "Negotiating Difference in Post-Apartheid Housing Design." African Identities 11, no. 3 (Aug. 2013): pp. 290-303.
• Makhloufi, Lilia, ed. Housing, Heritage and Urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2025.
• Malaquais, Dominique. "Une nouvelle liberté? Art et politique urbaine à Douala." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Malverti, Xavier. "Alger: Méditerranée, soleil et modernité,"in Architectures françaises outre-mer: Abidjan, Agadir, Alep, Alger, Bangui, Beyrouth, Brazzaville, Cansado, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Damas, Hanoi, Libreville, Niamey, Orleansville, Ouagadougou, Riyadh, Tananarive, Tunis, Yaoundé, pp. 29-63. Collection Villes. Liège: Mardaga, 1992.
• Mangin, Benoît, et al. Veilleurs du monde 2: art et environnement dans l’espace urbain: installations in situ et expositions. Paris: CQFD; Douala: Centre culturel français Blaise-Cendrars, 2009.
• Marguerat, Yves. "La naissance d’une capitale africaine: Lomé." Revue française d’histoire d’outre-mer 81, no.302 (1994): 71-95.
• Marguerat, Yves. "Réflexions cursives sur l'évolution des réseaux urbains en Afrique Noire." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 15, no. 2 (1978): pp. 173-185.
• Mauny, Raymond A. "Ancient capital of the land of gold." Practical anthropology 8, no. 3 (1961): pp. 135-138.
• Mauny, Raymond A. "Niani, Ex-Capitale de l’Empire Manding." Bulletin de l’IFAN 82 (1959): pp. 51-56.
• Mauny, Raymond A. "Une ville ancienne du Soudan: Tombouctou." Brousse 7, nouv.ser. (1955): pp. 24-31.
• McCarthy, J.J. "Problems of Planning for Urbanization and Development in South Africa: The Case of Natal's Coastal Margins." Geoforum 17, no. 2 (1986): pp. 267-87.
• McLaren, Brian Lloyd. Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2006.
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• Mendes, M.C. Maputo antes da independência: geografia de uma cidade colonial. Memórias 68, Segunda Serie. Lisbon: Instituo de Investigação Cientifica Tropical, 1985.
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• Nativel, Didier. "A chacun selon ses moyens: Pratiques d'appropriation et construction de modes de vie citadins à Tananarive au xixN siècle." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Nicholas, Guy. "Un village Bouzou du Niger." Cahiers d’outre-mer 15, no. 58 (1962): pp. ????.
• Moody, H.L.B. and J.E. Moody. "A visit to Sokoto and Wurno." Nigeria 98 (1968): pp. 177-192.
• Mosha, A.C. "Towards Decentralised Urbanisation: Tanzania's Experience," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 586-92. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Moughtin, J. C. "The Traditional Settlements of the Hausa People." Town Planning Review 35, no.1 (April 1964): pp. l21-34
• Nibbeling, Xandra and Kamiel Verschuren. Making Douala: 2007-2013. Rotterdam: ICU art projects, 2012.
• Nicholas, G. "Essai sur les structures fondamentales de l'espace dans la cosmologie hausa." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 36 (1966)
• Njoh, Ambe J. and Liora Bigon. "Germany and the deployment of urban planning to create, reinforce and maintain power in colonial Cameroon." Habitat International 49 (2015): pp. 10-20.
• Njoh, Ambe J. Planning in Contemporary Africa: The State, Town Planning, and Society in Cameroon. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2003.
• Nwafor, J.C. "Physcial Environment, Decision-Making and Land Use Development in Metropolitan Lagos." GeoJournal 12, no. 4 (1986): pp. 433-42.
• Obudho, R.A. "Multivariate Analysis of Kenya's Urban System." GeoJournal 13, no. 4 (1986): p. 385-99.
• Obudho, R.A. "Planning from Below: The Role of Small Urban Centers in Spatial Development in East Africa," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 134-54. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Olorunfemi, J.F. "Residential Land Use Patterns and Housing Characteristics in Akure, Nigeria." Cities 3, no. 3 (1986): pp. 237-43.
• Olufemi, Olusola A. "Planning and Morphology of Indigenous Towns in Nigeria." Africa Insight 25, no.3 (1995): pp. 195-200.
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