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100			_aCôté-Roy, Laurence _945219
245			_a‘Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 56, Issue 12, 2019,( 2391-2407 p.)
520			_aThis paper explores the emerging new master-planned city-building trend on the African continent. Situating our research within urban policy mobilities literature, we investigate the ‘Africa rising’ narrative and representation of Africa as a ‘last development frontier’ and ‘last piece of cake’, an imaginary that provides fertile ground for the construction of new cities. Building upon research on the practices of ‘seduction’ that facilitate urban policy circulation, we argue for the relevance of critically examining elite stakeholder rhetoric to understand the relative ease with which the new city development model is being promoted in Africa. We investigate the enablers, advocates and boosters of new cities, represented mainly by states, corporations, non-profits and consultants to render visible the complex networks of relations and private interests that support and enable the creation and circulation of the new cities model in Africa. We also analyse the pervasive ‘right to development’ argument among African elites, which precludes criticism of new city ventures and circulates problematic assumptions about modernity and development. We conclude by discussing how stakeholder rhetoric limits the range of urban visions that are put into circulation and mobilized for Africa’s urban future.
650			_aAfrica, _945220
650			_a discourse on development, _934417
650			_aentrepreneurial urbanism, _943244
650			_anew cities, _945221
650			_a right to development, _936317
650			_a urban policy mobility _945222
700			_aMoser, Sarah _945223
773	0		_011188 _915499 _dsage, 2019. _tUrban studies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018793032
942			_2ddc _cART