A lawyer, planner, researcher, writer, and sustainability advocate interested in building and maintaining sustainable, equitable, thriving communities, Christian Alexander is engaged on the Cities of Integrity project seeking to address the issue of corruption in planning through enhanced professional ethics strategies in Zambia and South Africa.
GI-ACE researcher Christian Alexander shares learnings from the Cities of Integrity conference that is spearheading research on integrity in urban planners.
One year further into its GI ACE-supported research concerning the role of integrity and corruption within the planning profession in Zambia and South Africa, the African Centre for Cities’ “Cities of Integrity” (COI) research team has hit new milestones and made progress in achieving its research objectives.
The scourge of corruption in urban development has corrosive and far-reaching effects that can hardwire injustice into the fabric of cities and undermine social cohesion and trust within communities.
