Bøger af Sam C. M. Ofori

The book is about urban design practices in city transformation processes in developing countries and the inappropriateness of foreign design models. Colonial development policy inertia, subsequent spontaneous urbanisation, unsustained infrastructure investment, most settlements historically unplanned, contemporary economic globalisation trends and new city construction created the need for tackling spatial design. Study aimed to develop an appropriate urban design modelling in the developing countries, learning lessons from existing models with caution about political interference and enactments by politicians.The discussions and appraisal were basis for proposing the Integrated Builtscape model structured into 8 spatial components: routescape, buildscape, plantscape, viewscape, formscape, varietyscape, personalisationscape and legibilityscape. It was then evaluated in Cape Coast and Elmina, Ghana, under various transformation projects and was effective in assessing urban design content and transformation processes. Equally, fulfilled the achievement of urban sustainability due to its comprehensive nature. Challenges included funding, participation and political economy problems.

The book is about an assessment of a community-led spatial planning intervention in a historically declined and deprived indigenous community, Old Accra/Ga Mashie, in central coastal Accra metropolis, under the UN-HABITAT¿s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP). It is set against the background of global slum upgrading/regeneration programmes from the 1950s until the PSUP in 2016. The book also sets within the context of statutory slum upgrading and improvement policies and the national planning system with normative backing.Rest of the book covers the historical degeneration of Old Accra/Ga Mashie and its slum conditions, actual participatory community-led settlement planning and design experience, including plan aims and objectives, stakeholders, consultation processes, development proposals, implementation timeline and planning administration processes. Conclusions are drawn, including the impressive effective community-led spatial planning processes, need to encourage such communities to plan their own settlements, widening participation for kids, extension of the plan period from 10 to 30 or more years and contribution of all these to sustainable community development.