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Title: | Demographic and Housing Aspects of Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana |
Author: | Yeboah, Ian E.A. |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Spring/Summer |
Pages: | 107-119 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | censuses 2000 urbanization urban planning Urbanization and Migration Drought and Desertification Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v050/50.1yeboah.pdf |
Abstract: | In an earlier article in Africa Today (vol. 47, no. 2 (2000), p. 61-89) the author discussed the emergence in Accra, Ghana, of a new urban form that he characterized as 'quality residential sprawl with unicentric tendencies'. His conclusion was based on land-use changes evident in a topographic map of Accra made in 1975 and aerial photographs taken in 1986, 1992, and 1997. In the present article, he shows that demographic and housing data from Ghana's 2000 population census support the conclusions of the initial paper. Preexisting local forces have interacted with enabling global forces - in particular trade and foreign currency liberalization, key components of structural adjustment policies - to create the specific expansion of Accra. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |