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Building Safe and Resilient Cities: Lessons from Ghana

In: Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals

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  • Festival Godwin Boateng

    (RMIT University)

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In this chapter, Boateng raises the need for conversation around building collapses, which are becoming a common, tragic occurrence in cities in developing countries. The chapter opens with the conversation on the subject from Ghana. Boateng then shows how the intersectionality of colonial and postcolonial modernization, and recent market-led neoliberal urban policies of successive governments and international bodies have shaped Ghana’s informal settlement of building supply and customary land tenure systems into structural impediments that undermine compliance and enforcement of building safety imperatives, with repercussions for building collapses in the cities. The chapter discusses the need for the various global, national, and local actors working on the health of cities to be more reflective of the decisions they take about urban infrastructure, buildings/housing, land use and management.

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  • Festival Godwin Boateng, 2020. "Building Safe and Resilient Cities: Lessons from Ghana," Springer Books, in: Sefa Awaworyi Churchill (ed.), Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals, chapter 13, pages 267-293, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-1556-9_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1556-9_13
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