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SECURITY ZONES AS ‘NEW CITIES’: Public-private Partnership and the Transformation of Land Use in Accra, Ghana
Using the Cantonments City project as a case study, we examine the changing land use of state security zones in Accra, Ghana, through public-private partnership. Combining qualitative and secondary data, this article explores the drivers, processes and implications of the project on urban space and people. The...
EXPERIENCING MORE-THAN-PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra-urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi
While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co-mediated, for example, within and through place-specific waterscapes and their socio-technical...
REFUGEE CAMP SITING AND THE EMERGENCE OF NIMBY MOVEMENTS: A Mixed-method Analysis of the Role of ‘Top-down’ Governance and Media Influence in Greece
Studies on the association between spatial planning and local NIMBY responses dating back to the late 1970s have focused on NIMBY mobilizations against various unwanted facilities, with less attention to NIMBY responses to refugee accommodation units. This article seeks to examine the role of the implementation of a...
NOVEMBER ISSUE
A view of the East Village from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (photo by Piero Corcillo, April 2023)
The location of Ankara station in Hermann Jansen’s Ankara Urban Plan, 1932 (source: Competition files, reproduced with permission of Türk Mühendis Mimar Odaları Birliği, site highlighted by Deniz Kimyon Tuna)
The neer satyagraham organized by Ennore fishers and the Save Ennore Creek Campaign on 3 January 2018 underscored that the land designated by the Government of Tamil Nadu for the expansion of Kamarajar Port was, in fact, four feet of standing water (photo by P. Jawar, New India Express. Used with permission)
