Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2023.2171284

T. Gillespie, Seth Schindler

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Many African governments have embraced centralised spatial planning and the construction of large-scale connective infrastructure as a means to synergise industrialisation and functional urban development. This article examines the tensions between these economic and urban development objectives in Ghana and Kenya. Infrastructure-led development in both cases has fuelled extended and unplanned urbanisation and the production of new frontiers for real estate investment. However, the evidence indicates that it has failed to contribute to processes of structural transformation. This argument advances debates about the tensions between supply chain and rentier capitalism and problematises the assumed relationship between infrastructure-led development and industrialisation.

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非洲的新城市空间:去工业化、基础设施主导的发展和房地产前沿

摘要：许多非洲国家政府已经接受了集中的空间规划和大规模互联基础设施的建设，以此作为协同工业化和功能性城市发展的手段。本文探讨了加纳和肯尼亚的这些经济和城市发展目标之间的紧张关系。在这两种情况下，基础设施主导的发展都推动了长期和无计划的城市化，并为房地产投资创造了新的领域。然而，有证据表明，它未能促进结构转型进程。这一论点推动了关于供应链和寻租资本主义之间紧张关系的辩论，并使基础设施主导的发展和工业化之间假定的关系出现了问题。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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3.00

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.