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Waterfronts are spaces of urban dualities, they are natural and artificial, planned and unplanned, promising shared growth or threatening exclusion through gentrification. Dr Irit Eguavoen (Center for Development Research, University of Bonn) takes us to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, an African metropolis whose waterfront is intensively used, densely populated and underprovisioned. In this presentation Dr Eguavoen discusses the vulnerabilities of waterfronts as social "problem spaces", how historical trajectories influence current city planning and housing policies, and the tensions and grey areas at the intersection of informality, public land governance and real estate development.
To learn more about the project, Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Cities, visit unrisd.org/climate-change-coastal-cities
This presentation was part of the workshop Transforming Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Cities, coorganized with the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn, Germany.
Waterfronts are spaces of urban dualities, they are natural and artificial, planned and unplanned, promising shared growth or threatening exclusion through gentrification. Dr Irit Eguavoen (Center for Development Research, University of Bonn) takes us to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, an African metropolis whose waterfront is intensively used, densely populated and underprovisioned. In this presentation Dr Eguavoen discusses the vulnerabilities of waterfronts as social "problem spaces", how historical trajectories influence current city planning and housing policies, and the tensions and grey areas at the intersection of informality, public land governance and real estate development.
To learn more about the project, Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Cities, visit unrisd.org/climate-change-coastal-cities
This presentation was part of the workshop Transforming Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Cities, coorganized with the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn, Germany.
