Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Quayson, Ato (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 547-560

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

14 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch48

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Accra's gradual urbanization, as capital ‐ Gold Coast Colony, by the British in 1877 , colonialism, essential character ‐ for internal and external migration in Ghana , spatial logics and features of urban fragment ‐ Oxford street, not real name, but called the Cantonments Road , transnational evocativeness of Oxford Street ‐ mimesis of opportunities for urban self‐fashioning, replicated in cities across the world , evolution of Accra, 1940s ‐ colonial urban planning in Accra, sanitation control and disaster management , Accra's urban planning phases, physical ‐ urban fabric of roads, buildings, public parks , Oxford Street, Accra ‐ spatial logics, street life and transnational imaginary , studies of African cities ‐ anthropological and labor economics approaches, variants of modernization theory , spatial logics, governing evolution of city , interracial children of Europeans and Africans ‐ first cohort of colonial‐era elites