Hope City, Ghana, Africa
Year 2013 latitude: 5° 42' longitude: 0° 6' Period 2013-2016 Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Open Building Research, Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi architects Inhabitants Target population 65,000 Town website Town related links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_City https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jan/13/ ghana-hope-city-african-white-elephant-projects http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/19/lowered-expectations-for-gh anas-hope-city.html http://www.obr.eu/categories/masterplans/hope-city Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
source: http://www.obr.eu/categor ies/masterplans/hope-city source: http://www.obr.eu/categor ies/masterplans/hope-city source: http://www.obr.eu/categor ies/masterplans/hope-city Hope City is the acronym for “Home, Office, People and Environment”. The project of the new city started in 2013 and it was expected to be completed within three years, but the construction has not started yet. Hope City is planned as a technology park, focused on information communication technology. It is designed as a vertical city of towers linked by bridges at different height, to represent an alternative to the typical campus scheme. This Hi-tech project is located in Prampram, in the region of Great Accra, on the initiative of AGAMS group and CEO in collaboration with the Government of Ghana. It takes part in the national development policy that wants to turn Ghana into a knowledge-society and a competitive actor in the global economy. source: http://www.obr.eu/
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