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Title Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings
Full text https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2027780; http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/38162
Date 2022
Author(s) Joseph, M.L.; Arthur, I.K.; Botchway, E.K.
Abstract Research Article - Urban poverty in both the developed and developing world is often spatially organized with deprivation highly concentrated in segregated areas of cities. With the rapid urbanization and lack of effective urban planning in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, segregation, economic deprivation and social exclusion are particularly severe challenges. In the United States, almost 30 years of poverty deconcentration policy has had mixed results and offers cautions to other countries looking to confront urban segregation. Accra, the capital city of Ghana, offers an intriguing example of a city with substantial clusters of poverty and slum areas, but also some neighborhoods with high existing levels of economic integration. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical context of poverty deconcentration efforts in the United States, this paper presents a conceptual framework with two alternative pathways for urban development: an inclusionary pathway and an exclusionary pathway. We use this framework to review and critique Ghana's existing urban policy and offer implications for inclusionary urban policy in Accra and other similar cities in developing countries.
Subject(s) Segregation; urban poverty; urbanization; social exclusion; social mix; mixed income; Africa; Ghana
Language en
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
Type of publication Article
Format application/pdf
Repository Accra - University of Ghana
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