Sunday, August 26, 2012

Satellite cities grow in new urbanization projects in Africa

Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File

Property developers are building satellite cities and new housing compounds on the outskirts of some of the largest cities in Africa, demonstrating a new trend in African urbanization.

Drive down the increasingly well-paved Lekki Expressway east of Lagos and take the exit for the new Free Trade Zone. You will be surprised by huge housing estates looming on the horizon.

(More: Konza techno city – the Kenya version of

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