Sustainable Urban Development in Africa? The Case of Urban Transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Obeng-Odoom, F

Sustainable Urban Development in Africa? The Case of Urban Transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Obeng-Odoom, F

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Citation:: American Behavioral Scientist, 2015, 59 (3), pp. 424 - 437
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Obeng-Odoom, F https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-7751	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	American Behavioral Scientist, 2015, 59 (3), pp. 424 - 437	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0002-7642	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30286
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36105
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36106
dc.description.abstract	© 2014 SAGE Publications. This article illustrates how episodes in local and international political economy shape urban transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s oil city, and how resultant dynamics in the global economy make the attainment of sustainable urban development illusory. Investment in road production and maintenance is overwhelmed by the recent rapid increase in the number and use of automobiles in the city. At the same time, official disinterest persists in planning for alternative sustainable forms of transportation. While another scenario is possible, by showing the structural and administrative orientation toward productivist sustainable development ideals and its ecologically destructive consequences, I argue that it is increasingly likely that the Sekondi-Takoradi of the future will come to exhibit the contradictions in the capitalist drive to “annihilate space through time.”.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	American Behavioral Scientist	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0002764214550305	en_US
dc.subject.classification	General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Sustainable Urban Development in Africa? The Case of Urban Transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Built Environment
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© 2014 SAGE Publications. This article illustrates how episodes in local and international political economy shape urban transport in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s oil city, and how resultant dynamics in the global economy make the attainment of sustainable urban development illusory. Investment in road production and maintenance is overwhelmed by the recent rapid increase in the number and use of automobiles in the city. At the same time, official disinterest persists in planning for alternative sustainable forms of transportation. While another scenario is possible, by showing the structural and administrative orientation toward productivist sustainable development ideals and its ecologically destructive consequences, I argue that it is increasingly likely that the Sekondi-Takoradi of the future will come to exhibit the contradictions in the capitalist drive to “annihilate space through time.”.

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