Research project Research Project (In)Formal Spaces in Transformation

The thesis explores how globally circulating visions and ideals of urban development are implemented, reworked, and contested in an African city (characterized by informality) and to expose how these processes impact on patterns of inclusion and exclusion in urban space.

Empirically, I focus on three selected areas in Accra, Ghana, which illustrate different processes of urban transformation; 1) the forced eviction/redevelopment of the central water front area, 2) the gentrification of the inner suburb Osu, and 3) the planning and construction of the new satellite city Appolonia.