dc.contributor.author | Nunbogu, Abraham Marshall | |
dc.contributor.author | Korah, Prosper Issahaku | |
dc.contributor.author | Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful | |
dc.contributor.author | Poku-Boansi, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T12:30:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T12:30:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0264-2751 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/370733 | |
dc.description.abstract | In 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 32 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 41 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Cities | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 74 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Urban and regional planning | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Urban and regional planning not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Human geography | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3304 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 330499 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4406 | |
dc.title | Doing it 'ourselves': Civic initiative and self-governance in spatial planning | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2018 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Korah, Prosper I. | |