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Title:Demographic and Housing Aspects of Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana
Author:Yeboah, Ian E.A.ISNI
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]
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