Carole Rakodi

Carole Rakodi recently took up a post as Professor of International Urban Development in the International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK. A geographer and urban planner, she worked for many years for the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. She has professional and research experience in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, and India. Her main research interests are in urban planning and management, urban land and housing markets and policy, and urban poverty and household strategies.... She has published widely on these issues and is author of Harare – Inheriting a Settler-colonial City: Change or Continuity (1995) and editor of The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of its Largest Cities (1998) and Urban Livelihoods: a People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty (2002).