Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana - Couverture rigide

Abedi Asante, Lewis; Helbrecht, Ilse

 
9781399531733: Urban Governance and Contested Market Redevelopment in Ghana
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1399531735 ISBN 13 : 9781399531733
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399531735
ISBN 13 
9781399531733
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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