East Legon Past Forward

East Legon Past Forward is a joint project between [applied] Foreign Affairs, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Orthner Orthner & Associates.
 
The publication presents narrative and artistic field research created in and around Abotsiman, Accra, in September 2018. The team consisted of four students of architecture from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, three students of architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and one student of international development from Lund University. Texts by invited authors engage with intrinsic topics at hand such as urban sprawl, gentrification, land speculation, planning and lack-of-planning, demographic inequalities and economic pressures, and the lack of agency of communities such as Abotsiman. The scenario is at once specific and at the same time representational of the processes and interrelationships occurring in Accra and other urban agglomerations on the African continent.
 
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East Legon Past Forward
ISBN: 978-3-9504894-1-5
Herausgeber: Baerbel Mueller, Juergen Strohmeyer, Applied Foreign Affairs, Institute of Architecture, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Verlag: Eigenverlag der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Sprache: Englisch
Preis: EUR 12
East Legon Past Forward is a project investigating the spatial, socio-cultural, and migratory characteristics of Abotsiman, one of the few remaining grown neighborhoods of East Legon, Accra, and the implications of urban transformation on it.