Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba

Urban renewal is central to ‘world-class’ city aspirations on the African continent: demolitions and evictions exemplify the power of the state to restructure urban space, prioritizing elite forms of accumulation and enforcing aesthetic norms of cleanliness, order and modernity. The ubiquity of worl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roelofs, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021