Globablizing City: Urban and Economic Transformation of Accra, Ghana

Front Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 3
Series Title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
3.1 Private Sector Real Estate Advertisements......Page 69
3.2 Monthly Fluctuations in Gated Community Advertisements......Page 70
3.3 Breaking and Entering Crimes in Greater-Accra, 1980–2001......Page 73
3.4 Main Purpose of Houses in East Airport......Page 78
3.5 How Residents Paid for Their Houses in East Airport......Page 79
3.6 Reasons Why Residents Moved into East Airport......Page 80
3.8 Reasons Why Residents Moved into Trasacco Valley......Page 82
3.9 Main Purpose of Houses in Trasacco Valley......Page 83
4.1 Private Unrequited Funds (Remitances) to Ghana......Page 99
4.2 Who Is Buying Propery in Accra?......Page 102
4.3 How Individual Pay for New Houses......Page 106
5.2 Morphology of a Lower-Income Transantional Entrepreneur......Page 124
Maps......Page 11
1.1 Accra in a Globalizing Context......Page 26
1.2 Geography of Accra......Page 28
2.1 Schematic Representation of the Economic Geographies of Accra During the Colonial Phase......Page 47
2.2 Geographic Distribution of All Corporate Activity in Accra in 1999......Page 53
2.3 Geographic Distribution of Foreign Companies in Finance and Producer Services in Accra in 1999......Page 55
2.4 Geographic Distribution of Domestic Companies in the Import-Export Sector in Accra in 1999......Page 57
2.5 Schematic Representation of the Economic Geographies of Accra During the Global Phase......Page 59
3.1 Geography of Gated Communities in Accra......Page 76
4.1 Residential Geographies of Compound Housing Versus Private Houses in 2000......Page 94
6.1 Residential Geography of Informal Structures in 2000......Page 137
6.2 Korle Lagoon Within the Accra Metropolitan Context......Page 139
6.3 Old Fadama and Agbogbloshie Settlements......Page 141
7.1 Globalizing Spaces in Accra......Page 168
Tables......Page 13
2.1 Origins of Top Ten Most Active Foreign Countries in Corporate Activities in Accra, 1994–2006......Page 51
3.1 Inventory of Gated Communities in Greater Accra, 2004......Page 75
4.1 Comparison of Percentages of Housing Stock and Ownership Categories, 1990 and 2000......Page 91
4.2 The Top Twelve Most Active Countries in Building Construction and Real Estate Development......Page 97
4.3 Foreign Agents and Their Local Partners in Money Transfers......Page 101
4.4 Sectoral Employment and Current Occupations of Heads of Households......Page 104
5.1 New Housing Investment by Cost......Page 120
5.2 Employment of Returnees......Page 121
5.3 Transnational Entrepreneurs......Page 122
Author Biography......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 19
1. Introduction: Globalizing City......Page 23
2. Globalizing from Above: Foreign Companies and Corporate Spaces......Page 40
3. Globalizing Residential Spaces: The Spread of Gated Communities......Page 64
4. Globalizing from Above and in Between: The Residential Building Boom......Page 88
5. In-Between Globalizing: Returnees' Networks and Spaces......Page 112
6. Globalizing from Below: Slum Dwellers in a Globalizing City......Page 133
7. Conclusions......Page 158
Appendix: Data Collection......Page 179
Works Cited......Page 185
Index......Page 199
Back Cover......Page 210