Hassan Yakubu

Hassan Yakubu is a trained architect and spatial planner whose research broadly seeks to bridge these spatial scales. Specifically, his work lies at the intersection of infrastructure planning, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and climate urbanism. Through this, Yakubu is developing a line of research exploring spatial patterns of urban energy consumption in order to inform the development of sustainable and resilient African cities. His earlier research engaged with sustainability within slum resettlement programs, exploring and extending the “site and services” approach at Old Fadama at the heart of Accra, Ghana. Thereafter, he investigated financing mechanisms of urban development schemes via public-private partnerships, combining a critical policy transfer and a new public management lens. In practice, Yakubu has undertaken architecture consultancies with leading practices in Rabat and Accra on a number of residential, commercial, and public projects. He holds an M.Phil. in Planning from the University of Cambridge, U.K., where he was a Commonwealth Shared Scholar, and an Architecture Diploma from the National School of Architecture-Rabat, Morocco, where he was a Ghana-Morocco Governments’ Scholar. As an academic, he worked as an analyst and research coordinator. He later led the Pedagogical Affairs Unit at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Design, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco.