Urbanisation in Ghana: Residential land use under siege in Kumasi central

Cities

Volumn 60, Issue , 2017, Pages 388-401

  Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful ^a,b   Niminga Beka, Rockson ^c  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Town and Country Planning Department   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ghana; Land use; Urban management; Urban planning; Urban poor; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIALIZATION; LAND USE; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

ASHANTI; GHANA; KUMASI;

EID: 84993970590     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2016.10.011     Document Type: Article

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