16–26 Aug 2026
Lagos, Nigeria
Africa/Lagos timezone

Accepted Abstracts

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Author

Title

Email

1

Aneerudha Paul

Peripheralization in the Indian City

 

 

2

Celine Jamin

From Relational Adaptation to Invisible Urbanism: Spatial Transformation and Infrastructural Shifts in Ganvié (Benin)

 

 

3

Fredinand Makiya

Toward Centralized Spatial Databases for Effective Campus Space Management in Higher Learning Institutions:A Case of Ardhi University,Tanzania

 

 

4

GALI DJAKO

Governing the Rural-Urban Fringe in Sahelian Secondary Cities: Institutional Actors, Climate Vulnerabilities, and Multi-level Planning in Bol (Lake Province, Chad) 

 

 

5

Kimberly Shane Recto

LIVING WITH FLOODS: COMPARING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF UPGRADED AND REGULARIZED SETTLEMENTS IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

 

kimshanerecto@gmail.com

6

Khaulah Abdulkadir

Adaptive Reuse Investment as a Tool for Authentic and Climate-Responsive Conservation in Lamu Old Town

 

khawlahabdul51@gmail.com

 

Ziming Li

The missing institutional linkages in constructing slum insecurity: Exclusion, policing and slum upgrading in India

 

lizimingis@126.com

 

Nuerziya Bakexi

Rural as New Urban: Lifestyle Migration and Everyday Urbanization in Anji, China #12

 

2530146@tongji.edu.cn

 

Erica Makangara

Historic Buildings as Living Urban Infrastructure: Adaptive Reuse and Urban Transformation in Bagamoyo

 

erica.makangara@gmail.com

 

Fortunatus Bahendwa

“Mainstreaming Cost-Effective Multistorey Housing Construction: Negotiating Housing Access, Urban Sprawl and Climate-Sensitive Rural–Urban Futures in Tanzania”

 

 

 

Weihang Gong

Reconceptualizing rural environmental justice through planetary thinking: Multi-dimensional spatial politics arising from Hong Kong’s countryside conservation 

 

craig.gwh@gmail.com

7

Zhuoying Li

Negotiating Informality: Grassroots Housing Networks and the Rural–Urban Frontier in Guangzhou's Villages-in-the-City

 

zhuoyingli89@gmail.com

8

Dele Oye

THE SPIDER WEB MODEL: INCREMENTAL DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT FROM LEKKI TO LAGOS’ RURAL–URBAN FRINGE

 

dele.oye.j@gmail.com

9

xueyan bai

Relation-Weaving through Edge-Making: Designing the Street as a Landscape of Coexistence, Nanjing

 

baixueyan@seu.edu.cn

10

Siwei Lu

“The Concrete, it hurts.”: Bitter Gift and Welfare Housing in Dakar, Senegal

 

siwei.lu@yale.edu

11

Adela Mkango

social-spacial elements to heat stress vulnerability among urban residents in informal settlement of Dar es Salaam

 

 

 

Zheyuan Deng

Replicating Rabwah in Nigeria: Religion and City-Making in Peri-Urban Lagos

 

dzheyuan@gmail.com

12

XIAOYUE DENG

Doing Reflexivity in an Intersectional Way: Self-Distancing and Self-Othering of a Returning Scholar in Peripheral China

 

 

13

Mawabo Msingaphantsi

Regional Diversity and Urban-Centric Policy Frameworks: Interpreting national spatial policies in Peripheral South African Contexts

 

 

14

Zhuo Chen

The Effects of Railway Upgrading on National Identity in Africa: Evidence from Kenya and Nigeria 

 

 

15

ge wang

Formulation and Applications in Group Decision Making for Improving the Quality of Life in Remote Rural Settlements in China by Using MaxDiff-QFD-V Mode

 

 

16

 

DIAN XIA

Exploring Rural-Urban Differences of Employment under Climate Change: A Case Study of Lagos 17Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

 

u3013885@connect.hku.hk

17

Shimanto Goswami,

 Sean Meyer

(re)Made in Bangladesh: Textile Waste, Indigenous Craft, and Conscious Incrementality in Shaoil Bazar

 

 

18

Nisha Nair

Learning the Periphery: Pedagogies of Situated Urban Knowledge in Mira-Bhayandar

 

 

19

Nisha Nair

Peripheral Urbanisation as Slow Ecological Violence: Land, Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in Mira–Bhayandar

 

 

20

Victoria Ginger-Eke

The Spatial Consequences of Replacing Indigenous Care Systems with Institutional Urban Models

 

victoriaigingereke@gmail.com

21

Ginella George

Sacred Ecologies and Rural–Urban Futures: Operationalizing VOICE for Decolonial Planning in Goa

 

arginella.george@gmail.com

22

Romana Nanga

Lessons from the past, when facing present challenges and reflecting on 23urban futures - A reflexion on Luanda’s colonial Modern tropical heritage

 

 

23

Mokọ́ládé JOHNSON

Rethatching the Urban Parchment: Indigenous Spatial Intelligence and Climate-Responsive Metaphors in African Urbanisms 

 

mbjohnson@unilag.edu.ng

24

Pr Dr Christian Pédelahore de Loddis

Southern Roots for Afrika Symbiotical Urbanism

 

christian.pedelahore@gmail.com

25

Yakubu Aliyu Bununu, Lamanto Ishaya Jonah, Tobenna Nzelibe, Shitu Mohammed Shehu

Challenging Alert Towns into Hustle Towns: A Geospatial Approach to Inclusive Prosperity in Zaria Urban Area, Nigeria

 

jonahlamanto@gmail.com

tobennanzelibe@gmail.com

26

Yakubu Aliyu Bununu, Lamanto Jonah Ishaya, Maltho Kaltho James, Tobenna Nzelibe Nnemeka

Spatial Morphology Mapping for Urban Resilience in Flood Mitigation: A Case Study of Kano Metropolis

 

 

27

Min Tang

Reimagining 'Urban Village' from Asia: Global Interaction and Entangled Trajectories

 

tangmindesign@gmail.com

28

Jie Mei

How Do You DO: Young Architects’ ‘Southern Footprint’ and the Reconceptualisation of Urbanism

 

 

28

Joost Dessein, Luitfred Kissoly, Makarius Mdemu

Urban Market Renewal and Spatial Justice: Actor Participation and Infrastructure Outcomes in Dar es Salaam

 

 

29

Zheng Tan

Spatial Dynamics of Urbanization in Shenzhen: An Inquiry into Infrastructure-Led Urban Development

 

etanzheng@tongji.edu.cn

30

Cansu Türk

Heritage as Climate Knowledge Infrastructure: Rethinking Urban Resilience through Southern Urbanism

 

cansu.turk13@gmail.com

cansuturk@unesco.org.tr

31

YUTIAN LU

How Greenspace Cooling Varies across the Rural–Urban Gradient in Chinese Cities

 

 

32

HELBERT J. NYAKI

Beyond the Corridor: Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development and BRT Station Access in Dar es Salaam

 

helbertjohn7@gmail.com

helbert.nyaki@student.uhasselt.be

33

Tianzuo Wen

Household Investment Behavior and Environmental Impact: How Family Financial Decisions Influence Carbon Emissions in China

 

zukowen@foxmail.com

34

Taiwo Ayomide ALE

Rethinking Residential Design in a Warming Climate: Passive Strategies for Thermal Comfort in Akure South, Nigeria

 

 

35

Olasunmbo Adhuze

SEMIOTICS OF THE EARTHEN ENVIRONMENT: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTIONS OF AGRICULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, AND URBAN DESIGN WITHIN YORUBA BUILT FORMS.

 

 

36

Olasunmbo Adhuze

The Enduring Values of Cultural Built Forms and Spaces in Southwest Nigeria.

 

 

37

Hilaria Mombela

Determining the Level of Non-Compliance with Development Control Regulations in Planned Residential Neighbourhoods in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

hmombela@gmail.com

38

Regina Peter

 

Negotiating Urban Mobility Futures: Travel Behaviour Change Along a Mature BRT Corridor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

reginavalerian.peter@student.uhasselt.be

39

Zeynelhan Sipahi

Rethinking Active Mobility in Cold-Climate and Post-War Cities of the Global South

 

 

40

Carole Diop

Facing the Threats to Our Heritage: What Preservation Strategies for the Future?