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THEDREAMCITY?

POSTCOLONIALURBANISMANDEKO

ATLANTICCITY,NIGERIA

GraceAdeniyiOgunyankin,CarletonUniversity

SolaOlufemi,tConsultant

WORLD/GLOBALCITYCONCEPTUALFRAMEWORK

GlobalUrbanHierarchy

Citiesintegraltotheworldeconomy

“Globalcity”“world-classcity”

MostAfricancitiesareatthebottomrungoftheladder;because

theyarenotofworldcityquality

Withintheworld/globalcitydiscourse,Africancitiesare

examinedthroughthedualisticlensofformal/informal,

nned/unnned,order/disorder,and

functional/dysfunctional(Rakodi,2008,;O’Shaughnessy,

2008).

AFRICANCITIESASFAILED

TheAfricanurbanUrbanrenewalprojects

populationwillincreasetomakeAfricancities

from400millionto1.2more“functional”,

billion“sophisticated”,

Approximately50per“manageable”

centoftheglobalGloballyrecognizable

populationgrowthratecities–symbolsof

weennowand2050modernity

willtakeceinAfricaAttractivetoregionaland

globalcapital

FlurryofactionstoprepareAfrican

Projectedpopulationgrowth

cities

NIGERIA

MostpopulouscountryinAfrica

Africa’slargesteconomy

Currently24thlargesteconomyintheworld

Projected:top20economiesbythe2020s

Projected:top10economiesbythe2050s

Contingentupon“world-class”infrastructural

developmentandinvestmentclimateconduciveto

capital

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