Our research group welcomes visiting scholar Philipa Birago Akuoko from Ghana
shape spatial planning in Africa and, more broadly, in the Global South. The intersections of migration, informality, gender, and labour, and the ways in which these are shaped by spatial planning remain [...] to critical urban studies, spatial planning, feminist labour studies, and migration studies. In particular, she tackles what she sees as the most central problem of planning in the Global South: its inability [...] Migration, Informality and the Challenge of Planning in African Cities , uses case studies from Ghana and Senegal to compare Anglophone and Francophone urban planning traditions. It examines how migration-induced …
