Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 194Urban and Rural Development ChallengesLand Use and Ecosystem ServicesUrban Development and Societal Issues

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 67 of the 70 references it cites were found in a registry or an index, and 2 are not checked yet.

Peri-urban land use pattern and its relation to land use planning in Ghana, West Africa

Open access
Kleemann, Janina, Inkoom, Justice Nana, Thiel, Michael, Shankar, Sangeetha, Lautenbach, Sven, Fürst, Christine·2017·Landscape and Urban Planning
DOI 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.004
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

Population growth, economic development, and rural migration to urban areas have caused rapid expansion of urban centres in Ghana. One reason is that spatial planning and in particular urban planning face different social, economic and political challenges which hinder a structured and planned urban development, therefore causing urban sprawl. We hypothesise that different peri-urban patterns are driven by geographical, historical, cultural and economic discrepancies between southern and northern Ghana, and reflect the effectiveness of land use planning instruments. We tested our hypothesis by comparing patterns of urban development in two case study regions: Takoradi in southern Ghana and Bolgatanga in northern Ghana, representing an economically vibrant and a non-vibrant region, respectively. This paper provides new insights for the study sites based on a mixed-method approach. We applied an interdisciplinary approach combining expert interviews, a literature review, and a bi-temporal change analysis based on remote sensing/geo-information systems. We assigned confidence levels of the findings from the respective methods based on their plausibility and sensitivity. Expert opinion indicated that land use planning fails due to the lack of implementation of legal regulations, to the customary land tenure and lack of participation of local citizens in the planning process. The remote sensing analysis revealed that urban development was stronger in Takoradi (7.1% increase between 2007 and 2013) than in Bolgatanga (1.1% increase between 2007 and 2013). Urban development patterns differ with a dominance of small-scale scattered settlement units (SUs) in Bolgatanga and a mixture of small- and large-scale SUs in Takoradi. Besides population growth, markets and industry are identified as major drivers of urban development in the Takoradi area (large SUs) and customary land tenure in the Bolgatanga area (small SUs).

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.004

Cites

67 of 69 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Cited by

See all 194

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Kleemann, J., Inkoom, J. N., Thiel, M., Shankar, S., Lautenbach, S., & Fürst, C.
Affiliations
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
  • University of Würzburg (DE)
  • University of Münster (DE)
  • University of Bonn (DE)
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
Corresponding author
Kleemann, Janina
ORCID
Venue
Landscape and Urban Planning
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-09
Volume
165
Pages
280-294
ISSN
0169-2046 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.004
OpenAlex
W2600705556
Cited by
182
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 5
FWCI
52.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Landscape and Urban Planning (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • elib (German Aerospace Center) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Development and Societal Issues
Keywords
peri-urban land use, land use planning, urban sprawl, urban development, customary land tenure, implementation planning, citizen participation, Takoradi, Bolgatanga

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review