Projects
3 typical new Regenerative SMARTERu-Urban cities types addressing
The needs of a Rapidly urbanising Africa
- Satellite Regenerative SMARTERu-Urban cities that re-connect primary cities with a services supported rural hinterland offering all advanced urban and circular economy opportunities as regional, continental and global hubs.
- Satellite Regenerative SMARTERu-Urban cities that re-connect secondary cities with a services supported rural hinterland, offering all advanced urban and circular economy opportunities. These can be part of regional and targeted productive hubs that may also be connected to global markets.
- Regenerative SMARTERu-Urban cities that mobilise, activate and position a productive city- hinterland value chain over time, kickstarted with an endogenous circular economy.
Continental Africa has Key Resources Ready to be Mobilised
A young population who, given the opportunity, will flourish in every field. Enough arable land to feed not only the peoples of the Africa, but also many others across the globe. Africa has land at scale to unlock economies of productive scale for Regenerative SMARTERu-Urban city development.
What needs to be positioned to support this process:
- Location of anchor institutions and transport infrastructure
- Opportunities and support to innovate services for the business sector
- Connecting value chains for productivity and delivery of goods, services and products to local, regional and global markets that are regenerative at their core.
- Business doing what business does best in the market with a longer-term view on balanced returns.
These new regenerative cities will require the right blend of public, private and innovation sector support along with the emergent longer-term transport and economic connectivity strategies. Reorienting civic institutions such as schools, skills training for future focused regenerative infrastructure and services, and healthy well-functioning places, are some of the basic ingredients needed for a successful new city. The AFRICA123 initiative offering to the African continent and the world.
South Africa
Milkwood City - Cape Town, South Africa
Status of Project: 2023 Commencement of Rezoning and Feasibility Phase
Milkwood is a private sector led Regenerative SMARTERu-urban City-making approach to radical economic transformation within the affordable housing sector, which can be replicated in other urban growth nodes across the continent.
Milkwood is designed as a modern, integrated and inclusive mixed-use, mixed-income extension to the City of Cape Town capturing and celebrating the multicultural heritage of the people of the Western Cape Region.
The Milkwood Project establishes the building blocks of a new urban economy featuring 200,000 homes for 800,000 residents and targeting 200,000 permanent jobs. Milkwood offers the Province of the Western Cape a US$ 25 billion economic stimulus of which US$ 15 billion will directly impact the local construction industry, immediately creating 25,000 permanent jobs over construction period of 15 years, followed by on-going maintenance to the entire built environment
Ghana
Prekese City - Ashanti North, Ghana
Status of Project: 2023 Commencement of Rezoning and Feasibility Phase
Prekese City is a private sector led Regenerative SMARTERu-urban City-making approach to radical economic transformation within the affordable housing sector, which can be replicated in other urban growth nodes across the continent. Prekese is designed as a new modern integrated and inclusive mixed-use mixed-income urban node capturing and celebrating the multicultural heritage of the people of the Ashanti North region.
Prekese establishes the building blocks of a new urban economy featuring 250,000 homes for 1,000,000 residents and targeting 250,000 permanent jobs. Prekese offers the Ashanti North region a US$ 25 billion economic stimulus of which US$ 15 billion will directly impact the local construction industry, immediately creating 30,000 permanent jobs over construction period of 15 years, followed by on-going maintenance to the entire built environment.
Togologo City – Greater Accra, Ghana
Status of Project: 2023 Commencement of Rezoning and Feasibility Phase
Togologo City is a private sector led Regenerative Regenerative SMARTERu-urban City-making approach to radical economic transformation within the affordable housing sector, which can be replicated in other urban growth nodes across the continent. Togologo is designed as a new modern integrated and inclusive mixed-use mixed-income urban node capturing and celebrating the multicultural heritage of the people of the Greater Accra region.
Togologo establishes the building blocks of a new urban economy featuring 250,000 homes for 1,800,000 residents and targeting 450,000 permanent jobs. Togologo offers the Greater Accra region a US$ 50 billion economic stimulus to the Greater Accra region, of which US$ 40 billion will directly impact the local construction industry, immediately creating 50,000 permanent jobs over construction period of 25 years, followed by on-going maintenance to the entire built environment.
Nyamedua City - Bono East, Ghana
Status of Project: 2023 Commencement of Rezoning and Feasibility Phase
Nyamedua City is a private sector led Regenerative SMARTERu-urban City-making approach to radical economic transformation within the affordable housing sector, which can be replicated in other urban growth nodes across the continent. Nyamedua is designed as a new modern integrated and inclusive mixed-use mixed-income urban node capturing and celebrating the multicultural heritage of the people of the Bono East region.
Nyamedua establishes the building blocks of a new urban economy featuring 250,000 homes for 650,000 residents and targeting 150,000 permanent jobs. Nyamedua offers the Bono East region a US$ 17 billion economic stimulus to the Bono East region, of which US$ 9 billion will directly impact the local construction industry, immediately creating 18,000 permanent jobs over construction period of 12 years, followed by on-going maintenance to the entire built environment.