A comparison of original owners and inheritors in housing supply and extension in Kumasi, Ghana

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 889-902

  Tipple, A G ^a   Korboe, D T ^b   Garrod, G D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING SUPPLY; URBAN ECONOMY;

GHANA, KUMASI;

EID: 0031405016     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b240889     Document Type: Review

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