Global urban sprawl containment strategies and their implications for rapidly urbanising cities in Ghana

O Amponsah, DK Blija, RA Ayambire, SA Takyi… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far failed to sustainably address urban
sprawl and its ramifications. Meanwhile, the projected increase in the urban population in …

A review of practices for sustaining urban and peri-urban agriculture: Implications for land use planning in rapidly urbanising Ghanaian cities

RA Ayambire, O Amponsah, C Peprah, SA Takyi - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Agriculture, through its economic, social and ecological functions, presents potentials for
meeting some of the targets of the 11 th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The targets …

Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities

G Xu, T Dong, PB Cobbinah, L Jiao, NS Sumari… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Africa has been experiencing rapid urbanization, yet limited studies have systematically
investigated urban growth dynamics across African cities. Using 25 cities as cases, we …

Modelling the impact of urban growth on agriculture and natural land in Italy to 2030

F Martellozzo, F Amato, B Murgante, KC Clarke - Applied Geography, 2018 - Elsevier
The uncontrolled spread of towns and cities into their surrounding rural and natural land,
and the consequent increasing demand for new natural resources are among the most …

Urban sprawl and fiscal stress: Evidence from urbanizing China

Y Yan, T Liu, N Wang, S Yao - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Sprawl not only has a direct negative impact on the health of urban society and ecology but
may also damage the financial foundation of urban development. Using city-level panel data …

On the absurdity of rapid urbanization: Spatio-temporal analysis of land-use changes in Morogoro, Tanzania

NS Sumari, PB Cobbinah, F Ujoh, G Xu - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
This study questions the frequent overemphasis on population growth aspects of African
urbanization with little consideration of the spatial extent by analyzing the influence of …

[HTML][HTML] Informality-sustainable city nexus: The place of informality in advancing sustainable Ghanaian cities

GA Azunre, O Amponsah, SA Takyi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Economic and spatial informality dominates the cityscape of countries in the Global South.
From the perspective of urban practitioners and other stakeholders, there are two main …

Urban land use planning in Ghana: Navigating complex coalescence of land ownership and administration

PB Cobbinah, MO Asibey, YA Gyedu-Pensang - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Global literature reporting on land governance indicates considerable differences between
land ownership and land administration. Yet, in many Sub-Saharan African countries …

Peri-urbanization and land use fragmentation in Mexico City. Informality, environmental deterioration, and ineffective urban policy

AG Aguilar, MA Flores, LF Lara - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a great deal of concern over the scattered, fragmented expansion of cities,
particularly in developing countries. This expansion accelerates the peri-urbanization …

GIS-based land-use suitability analysis for urban agriculture development based on pollution distributions

F Kazemi, N Hosseinpour - Land use policy, 2022 - Elsevier
With recent increases in urban population and development, agricultural lands have been
changed to residential areas and industrial settlements. Such urban population growth …