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- Focuses on the relevant contemporary discourse at the global scale before examining issues that pertain specifically to Ghana
- Offers international as well as the context-specific perspectives
- Systematically unpacks and highlights the theory-practice gap in spatial planning by emphasizing how normative planning theory shapes statutory regulations professional practices and outcomes
- Provides fresh insights into the ways in which key challenges in the spatial planning system and the associated practices could be addressed
- Includes examples of plans and frameworks to illustrate how various spatial planning concepts and principles are translated into policy instruments for implementation
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modern-Day Planning Systems and Scales of Spatial Planning
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Front Matter
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Issues in Spatial Planning
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana’s spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management. It covers important themes in contemporary spatial planning discourse, including the evolving meaning, scope and purpose of spatial planning globally; the scales of spatial planning (i.e. national, regional, sub-regional and local); multi-level integration within spatial planning; public participation; the interface between urbanization, sustainable growth management and spatial planning; spatial planning and housing development; integrated spatial development and transportation planning; and spatial planning and the urban informal economy. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers and practitioners/policy-makers in the multidisciplinary field of spatial planning, it appeals to readers seeking an international perspective on spatial planning systems and practices.
Keywords
- Spatial Planning
- Spatial Planning in Ghana
- Public Policy
- Spatial Governance
- Urban Sustainability
- Planning Systems
- Urban Growth Management
- Urban Transportation
- Planning and Climate Change
- Urban Housing in Ghana
- Public Engagement in Planning
- Policy Integration
- Local Level Planning
- Spatial Planning history in Ghana
- landscape/regional and urban planning
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Planning and Environmental Management, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Ransford A. Acheampong
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial Planning in Ghana
Book Subtitle: Origins, Contemporary Reforms and Practices, and New Perspectives
Authors: Ransford A. Acheampong
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02011-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02010-1Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02011-8Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Public Policy, Sustainable Development, Development Studies