Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy
Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana
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About this book
Examines the relationship between urban regeneration and urban governance in Africa
- Presents detailed case studies of market redevelopment in Kumasi, Cape Coast, Ho and Sekondi-Takoradi, with each illustrating urban governance challenges in different phases of urban regeneration
- Introduces original conceptual frameworks such as African market characteristics, urban governance as DEDA (decentralisation, entrepreneurialism, democratisation and activism), hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance and politically-induced displacement
- Engages critically with mainstream urban economics and offers a counter-narrative grounded in urban social economics and political economy
Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana explores how urban governance, urban regeneration and urban politics intersect during market redevelopment in cities in Ghana, and Africa more broadly. Utilising market redevelopment case studies in Kumasi, Cape Coast, Ho and Sekondi-Takoradi, Lewis Abedi Asante and Ilse Helbrecht reveal how market traders resist displacement, shape urban governance and challenge modernist urban development.
Introducing new frameworks, such as African market characteristics, urban governance as DEDA (decentralisation, entrepreneurialism, democratisation and activism), hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance and politically induced displacement, the book critiques mainstream urban economics and offers a counter-narrative grounded in urban social economics and political economy.
Reviews
Africa’s marketplaces offer a uniquely powerful lens onto urban politics and governance. Packed with insights into how the realities of governance collide with economistic and high modernist logics, this excellent book tackles the topic in the round, from the intricacies of planning and financing to conflicts over reconstruction and relocation.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Markets
1. Characteristics of Central Markets in the Case Study Cities
2. Central Market Decline and Motives for Regeneration
3. Resistance and Activism
4. Hybrid Entrepreneurial Urban Governance
5. High Modernist Relocation Governance
6. High Modernism and Participatory Urban Governance
7. Politically-Induced Displacement
Conclusion: Changing Urban Governance
Index