Urban Forum

期刊简介：This journal publishes papers, which engage broadly with urban processes, developments, challenges, politics and people, providing a distinctive African focus on these themes.  Topics covered variously engage with the dynamics of governance, everyday urban life, economies and environments. The journal uses empirical data to reinforce and refine theoretical developments in urban studies, draws on the specificities of the African context, and opens up geographically diverse conversations on African cities. Urban Forum welcomes papers that provide rich evidence from African cities and, in doing so, builds debate and theory that often remains peripheral to urban scholarship.  The journal is open to research based on a range of methodologies, but prioritizes qualitative analysis and interpretation. With this mix, research in Urban Forum demonstrates the ordinary and the exceptional nature of urbanization in African cities.

【译文】该期刊发表与城市过程、发展、挑战、政治和人民广泛相关的论文，为这些主题提供独特的非洲视角。涵盖的主题涉及治理动态、日常城市生活、经济和环境。该期刊使用实证数据来加强和细化城市研究中的理论发展，借鉴非洲背景的特定性，并开启关于非洲城市的地理多样性对话。城市论坛欢迎提供丰富证据的论文，从非洲城市出发，构建通常被视为城市学术边缘的辩论和理论。该期刊接受基于多种方法的研究，但优先考虑定性和解释分析。在这种混合中，城市论坛的研究展示了非洲城市城市化的普通和非凡性质。