Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1) (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

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Synopsis
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana’s small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.The book argues that Ghana’s urban future may have more to do with the steady growth of SMCs, where urban consolidation is gradually taking a foothold. Recognizing that Ghana’s primary cities are well known to be socio-ecological hotspots of risk, reactive urban planning, and entrenched inequalities of alarming proportions, this book asks: would SMCs follow these troubling realities and trajectories in large cities or leapfrog to resilient futures that work for all? Through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributions emphasize the need for integrated planning strategies to navigate socio-ecological challenges and opportunities that SMCs face in terms of infrastructure, governance, and climate resilience. By centering overlooked and understudied SMCs in Ghana’s urban scholarship, this book realigns resilience planning to the spaces and places emerging as the frontiers of socio-ecological crises. It will be of interest to students and researchers of city and regional planning, urban studies, geography, environmental studies and science, public policy, development studies, and public health, as well as urban planners, community development practitioners, geographers, environmental, disaster, and resilient personnel, and policymakers.
Copyright:
2026

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
260 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040425190
Related ISBNs:
9781041076599, 9781003641612, 9781040425138
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah and Louis Kusi Frimpong
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Stephen Kofi Diko
Edited by:
Seth Asare Okyere
Edited by:
Stephen Leonard Mensah
Edited by:
Louis Kusi Frimpong

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