Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana

Lewis Abedi Asante is Senior Lecturer in Housing and Urban Development, Head of the Department of Estate Management and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Built and Natural Environment at Kumasi Technical University. Ilse Helbrecht is Professor of Cultural and Social Geography at Humboldt University of Berlin.

• List of FiguresList of TablesDedicationPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Markets1. Characteristics of Central Markets in the Case Study Cities2. Central Market Decline and Motives for Regeneration3. Resistance and Activism4. Hybrid Entrepreneurial Urban Governance5. High Modernist Relocation Governance6. High Modernism and Participatory Urban Governance7. Politically-Induced DisplacementConclusion: Changing Urban GovernanceIndex

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.