A Ghanaian twist to urban sprawl

Land Use Policy

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 231-241

  Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful ^a,b   Aboagye, Honorata Nsomah ^c  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Town and Country Planning Department   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Kumasi; Urban planning; Urban sprawl; Urbanisation; Urbanism; Urbanites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998655275     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.047     Document Type: Article

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