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A Tale of Two African Cities : Hyper Growth , Sprawl and Compact City Development Towards the Development of a Sustainable Future City

This paper focuses on a critical comparative analysis of efforts to create sustainable urban present and future cities in the face of hyper-urban growth and compact city policy intervention based on Nairobi and Durban, both cities in Sub-Saharan countries of Kenya and South Africa respectively. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions in the world experiencing hyper-premature urbanisation trends and the affiliated policy challenges and problems. The UN-HABITAT (2006) notes that the urban growth rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is almost 5 percent twice as high as in Latin America and Asia. Associated with this trend the UN-HABITAT also highlights, it has the world’s largest proportion of urban population living in slums. Therefore, focusing on Nairobi, Kenya and Durban, South Africa presents an opportunity for analysing urban policy intervention for sustainable future cities for a region facing various urban challenges in terms of different policies and socio-cultural practices.