Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire 1910–1940

Home, Robert

doi:10.1080/02665439008725693

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“…poor, informal, women) in the urban economy, prime land utilization, and urban form (Home, 1990;Okpala, 2008;King, 1976). Mabogunje (1990) identified compulsory land acquisition and subsequent private allocation as the most common mechanisms for preventing weaker groups from accessing urban land.…”

Section: Non-compliance With Planning Regulationsmentioning

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Non-compliance with building permit regulations in Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana: exploring the reasons from the perspective of multiple stakeholders

Arku

Mensah

Allotey

et al. 2016

Planning Theory & Practice

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Non-compliance is a major urban planning challenge in Ghana. Based on indepth interviews with key stakeholders, the paper examines the complex and multifaceted factors that contribute to low or non-compliance with building permit regulations and planning standards in Accra and its environs. The paper uses the interviews to assess potential responses to the problem of non-compliance and its negative impacts. In doing so the paper contributes to wider knowledge and debate about the challenges of planning enforcement in contexts where regulatory power is weak and variable. Suggestions are made for overcoming barriers to planning compliance in the Accra-Tema city-region. It is hoped that such an examination of the issues from multiple stakeholders' perspectives will improve the knowledge of the dynamics of non-compliance so as to initiate effective planning strategies to address the problem. The paper makes specific recommendations to improve planning practices in the AccraTema city-region.

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Section: Non-compliance With Planning Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Non-compliance with building permit regulations in Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana: exploring the reasons from the perspective of multiple stakeholders

Arku

Mensah

Allotey

et al. 2016

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…These tools were used extensively by colonists in relation to the development of cities in colonized territories in the twentieth century (Home, 1990;Kanyeihamba, 1980;King, 1976;Okpala, 2008). The post-colonial period, however, presents quite a different story.…”

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Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: Explaining divergent trajectories in Africa

Goodfellow

2013

Geoforum

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Original citation:Goodfellow, Tom (2013) Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: explaining divergent trajectories in Africa. Geoforum, 48 . pp. 83-93. ISSN 0016-7185 © 2013 Elsevier AbstractWhy are urban plans, land use regulations and construction codes implemented effectively in some African states but not others? This constitutes an increasingly urgent development concern with major implications for the environment and the urban poor. Rather than being explained by economic factors, bureaucratic capacity or the nature of the urban policies and regulations in place, this paper argues that divergent outcomes are largely rooted in differing political bargaining environments. Comparing Uganda and Rwanda, it presents an empirical study that analyses contrasting planning and regulation trajectories in contexts of similarly low levels of socioeconomic development and soaring rates of urban growth. It argues that the divergent outcomes can be explained in relation to the political resources and incentives confronted by governing elites, which in Rwanda impel state actors to implement plans and regulations while in Uganda incentivize overriding them in the interests of political or economic gain. In highlighting political bargaining contexts and how these change over time, the paper illustrates the critical importance of historically informed city-level political economy analysis for understanding divergent urban development outcomes.

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“…McLean in Egypt; consultant architects expatriated from Britain for specific or long term assignments, such as Lanchester in India; and occasional peripatetic propagandists, such as Geddes in India and Jerusalem. 10 Those served and practiced in Hong Kong could also be divided into groups based on similar profession backgrounds:…”

Section: Modern European and British Town Planning Practicesmentioning

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The shaping of early Hong Kong: transplantation and adaptation by the British professionals, 1841–1941

Xue

Zou

et al. 2012

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Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire 1910–1940

Cited by 65 publications

References 2 publications

Non-compliance with building permit regulations in Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana: exploring the reasons from the perspective of multiple stakeholders

Non-compliance with building permit regulations in Accra-Tema city-region, Ghana: exploring the reasons from the perspective of multiple stakeholders

Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: Explaining divergent trajectories in Africa

The shaping of early Hong Kong: transplantation and adaptation by the British professionals, 1841–1941

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