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dc.contributor.authorNunbogu, Abraham Marshall
dc.contributor.authorKorah, Prosper Issahaku
dc.contributor.authorCobbinah, Patrick Brandful
dc.contributor.authorPoku-Boansi, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-04T12:30:34Z
dc.date.available2019-07-04T12:30:34Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0264-2751
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.022
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/370733
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, an analysis of civic initiatives to collectively realise a particular community ambition amongst informal settlers in a Ghanaian metropolitan area is presented. This community ambition is grounded in collective intent with no government or city authority intervention. Using secondary data review and interviews conducted in two selected neighbourhoods in the Accra Metropolitan Area, the findings show that self-governance mechanism has the potential to support informal settlers' capacity in terms of adapting to changing environmental situations by mutual cooperation and consensus building. The paper recommends a relook of planners' role in spatial planning in Ghana, emphasising a shift from development decision making to actors and facilitators of socio-spatial initiatives by community residents. This changing role may lead to suppression of the negatives and maximisation of the positives of self-governed initiatives for the benefit of society.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom32
dc.relation.ispartofpageto41
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCities
dc.relation.ispartofvolume74
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban and regional planning
dc.subject.fieldofresearchUrban and regional planning not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3304
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.titleDoing it 'ourselves': Civic initiative and self-governance in spatial planning
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.griffith.authorKorah, Prosper I.


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