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Der Autor untersucht die Entwicklung von Urbanisierung und Wohnsituation in Ghanas Hauptstadt Accra auf dem Hintergrund der Politik der Strukturanpassung der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Auf der Basis von Zensusdaten aus dem Jahr 2000 stellt er für Accra eine Stadtentwicklung fest, die, aus der Verbindung lokaler und globaler Triebkräfte entstanden, als "quality residential sprawl with unicentric tendencies" (QRSUT) bezeichnet wird. Eine solche Entwicklung produziere für die Stadtplanung nicht nur in Accra, sondern auch in anderen afrikanischen Städten besondere Herausforderungen. (DÜI-Kör)

Researchers have postulated the emergence of new urban forms in the Third World (TW), which are characterized by either a deconcentration of urban functions to peri-urban or smaller cities (polycentric), or a fusion of urban and rural functions ( desakota ). This paper provides empirical evidence, in the form of the phenomenal growth of Accra, on emerging urban forms. It argues that Accra's growth is a quality residential sprawl with unicentric tendencies, rather than either a deconcentration of urban functions or a fusion of urban and rural functions. For Accra, globalization, economic growth, and Structural Adjustment have helped the state provide enabling circumstances for global and local factors to contribute to the city's expansion. Based on the case of Accra, the paper raises a series of questions that relate to generalization, planning, and the management of sub-Saharan African cities (SSACs) .

Der Autor untersucht Ursachen und Hintergründe der Veränderung von Ghanas Hauptstadt Accra während der 1980er und 1990er Jahre. Er zeigt auf, dass strukturelle Anpassung durch IWF-Weltbank-Wirtschaftsprogramme, Wirtschaftswachstum und Globalisierung nicht nur eine erhebliche demographische und räumliche Expansion, sondern auch funktionelle Veränderungen zur Folge hatte, die auch neue Anforderungen an die Planung stellen. (DÜI-Kör)

Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles and statuses and impact on host societies. Each of the thematic themes has been chosen with one specific goal in mind: to depict and represent the critical components in the reconstitution of the African diaspora in international migration. We contextualized the themes in the African diaspora as a dynamic process involving what Paul Zeleza called the "(Bdiasporization" of African immigrant settlement communities in global transnational spaces. These themes also reflect the diversities inherent in the diaspora communities and call attention to the fluid and dynamic boundaries within which Africans create, diffuse, and engage host and home societies. In this context, the themes outlined in this book embody the diaspora tapestries woven by the immigrants to center African social and cultural forms in their host societies and communities. Collectively, the themes represent pathways for the elucidation of understanding African immigrant territorialization. Our purpose is to map out and identify the sources and sites for the contestations of the myriad of cultural manifestations of the new African diaspora and its depictions within the totality of the shared meanings and appropriations of the essences of African-ness or African blackness. The vulnerabilities, struggles, threats (internal or external to the immigrant community), and opportunities emanating from the diasporic relationships that these immigrants create are accentuated within the nexus of African global migrations. We view the African diaspora in terms of spatial and geographic constructions and propagations of African cultural identities and institutional forms in global domains whose boundaries are not static but rather dynamic, complex, and multidimensional. Simply stated, we approach the African diaspora from a perspective that incorporates the historical as well as contemporary postmodern constructions of the Africa's dispersed communities and their associated transnational identity forms