ABSTRACT This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly knowledge and sustainable development policy aspirations. We note a shift to multi-nodal urban governance and highlight the significance of the synthesis of social, economic and ecological values in a normative vision of what an African metropolis might aspire to by 2030. The sustainable development vision provides a useful stimulus for Africa’s urban poly-crisis, demanding fresh interdisciplinary and normatively explicit thinking, grounded in a practical and realistic understanding of Africa’s infrastructure and governance challenges.

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非洲的梦想：在2030年可持续发展议程中定位城市基础设施

摘要本文探讨了非洲城市基础设施和服务提供的切入点，作为将非洲理想与城市管理的苛刻发展势头联系在一起的切入点，在学术知识与可持续发展政策理想之间建立了对话。我们注意到向多节点城市治理的转变，并在规范非洲大都市区到2030年可能追求的目标的愿景中强调了社会，经济和生态价值综合的重要性。可持续发展的愿景为非洲城市提供了有益的刺激多边危机，需要对学科基础和治理挑战进行务实的现实理解，需要跨学科的，规范性的，明确的全新思维。