Engineering a Millennium City in Accra, Ghana: The Old Fadama Intractable Issue

Urban Forum

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 527-540

  Afenah, Afia ^a  

^a Centre for Metropolitan Studies Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accra; Discourse; Forced eviction; Ghana; Urban; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

FORCED MIGRATION; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SANITATION; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

ACCRA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA;

EID: 84869869951     PISSN: 10153802     EISSN: 18746330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-012-9155-z     Document Type: Article

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