Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165).
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Role of Young Planners. The Rise of Accra: Pre-Independence -- Urban Planning in Accra -- Ills of Modern Accra -- Calls for a New Capital 63 Years After Independence -- Future of Accra -- Founding a City -- Change In A Climate Change Era -- Perennial Flooding in Ghana -- Understanding Climate Change -- Adapting to Climate Change -- Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI) -- Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure -- How do we Achieve the Sustainability and Resilience Agenda? -- Taking Advantage of the Sun -- Making Coastal Cities Resilient: Elmina -- Parks And Urban Forestry -- Saving the Vegetative Cover of an Urbanizing Accra -- Protecting the Vegetation Zones -- Avoiding Extinction -- A Relook At The Transportation Modes -- The Revival of Rail Transport -- Toward a Vibrant Ghanaian Railway Sector -- Revolutionizing Cycling -- Accessible And Affordable Housing -- Housing in Ghana -- Ghana Housing Policy -- The Ghanaian's Right to Housing -- How Have Other Countries Approached Housing? -- The Suburbanization Culture Explained -- Making Persons with Disability (PWD) Special -- Housing Prisoners and Making Prisons Model Communities -- Slums And Squatter Settlement -- The Issue of Population Explosion -- Defining Slums -- The Global Picture -- Life of the Slum Dweller -- Growth of Slums -- Old Fadama: Slum Upgrading or Slum Clearance? -- Learning from Curitiba -- Zoning And Master Planning -- Plan Making and Zoning in Principle -- Zoning in Ghana -- Land Ownership in Ghana -- Ethical Land Use -- Mortgage Financing -- Protecting the City's Image -- Planning Terminologies -- Street Layout And City Planning -- Grid Street System -- Radial Street System -- The Industrial Revolution -- Urban Renewal -- Recommendations For The Future Of Ghanaian Cities -- Economic Development -- Community Engagement -- Parks and Tree Planting -- Alternative Modes of Transport -- Future of Ghanaian Prisons -- Built Environment Institutions and the Thriving City -- Role of Young Planners.
Summary:
"'Ailing Cities' is a book written largely to educate and facilitate a dialogue with people of all backgrounds on environmental sustainability, architecture, urban planning, and design. It has been necessitated by urban ills in Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries. Urbanization has led to the creation of informal settlements within communities in sub-Saharan countries that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, coupled with the lack of enforcement of planning and building laws that have resulted in spatial chaos and vegetative depletion. 'Ailing Cities' addresses relevant topics essential to give the reader an understanding of how individuals and communities can bring lasting changes to their communities."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper
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