Recent studies have argued that most state-led urban regeneration projects around the
globe are implemented through the four-stage process of scoping, planning, financing and …

Grounded in the theoretical lens of urban revanchism (Smith, 1996), this inquiry sheds light
on the continuous marginalization of informal e-waste workers by revanchist forces in …

The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2
or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is …

Conventional literature on urban studies have often framed informality within the concept of
'hustle'at multiple sites in the city. Such studies usually examine the uncertainties and …

This paper explores power dynamics among stakeholders in the Kejetia/Central Market
Redevelopment Project in Kumasi, Ghana. It adopts a case study approach and draws on …

The Malian market at the railway terminus in Dakar was bulldozed in 2009 and, following
privatisation of the railway, passenger services in Senegal soon ceased altogether. The …

In the pre-colonial era, Yoruba market women were astute itinerant traders with a formidable
presence in the trading spaces of towns and villages. This legacy subsists till the twentieth …

Throughout the last decade, there has been an increase in state-led initiatives to redevelop
and modernize open-air markets in West Africa's rapidly growing cities, transforming these …

Much has been written especially in the western world about the perceived shift from
government to governance in spatial development and across the spatial planning and …