ABSTRACT
This chapter explores questions that relate to planning, urbanization, and social stratification implications of the relationship between Ghana's structural adjustment program and emerging urban form of Accra. It overviews the stage for assessing the urban system, planning, management, and social stratification implications of Accra's recent expansion under structural adjustment. The chapter outlines specific urbanization and urban system implications of Accra's emerging urban form. It discusses the kinds of issues that planners and managers of the city, and possibly of other Sub-Saharan African cities that have undergone similar changes as Accra will have to consider in their decision-making. Related to the urbanization effects of Accra's growth and its emerging urban form under structural adjustment is a set of effects that can be classified as planning implications. The insights relate to issues of urban system interactions and urban primacy of capital cities, planning, management, and livability of cities and, the social stratification or segregation issues.
