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type: thesis
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creators_name: Korah, Prosper Issahaku
title: Reinventing the role of plans in guiding urban transformation: A critical assessment of the capacity of Kumasi’s spatial plans (Ghana) to guide foreseen and unforeseen urban dynamics
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: Spatial plans are lauded because they create an image of how places should develop and ways in which preferred configurations of spatial development will be realised. These plans however, become limited in guiding urban areas in transition. This research assessed the capacity of Kumasi’s spatial plans to guide foreseen and unforeseen urban dynamics. Using mixed methods, including; qualitative data analysis and Geographic Information System (GIS) support analysis, the structure plan and two local plans of Kumasi were analysed. The results showed development in Kumasi emerges out of planned and unplanned processes of change reflecting uncertainty about how independent actors in the urban system will self-organise even when there is a plan. This uncertainty results in development in Kumasi taking a different course in relation to the spatial plans in most cases. We argue that, in order to overcome this, spatial plans should provide the conditions necessary for supporting autonomous development
date: 2015
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EIP
tutors_name: Roo, G. de
keywords_local: self-organisation
keywords_local: urban transformation
keywords_local: complex adaptive systems
keywords_local: complexity
keywords_local: spatial planning
keywords_local: Kumasi
language_iso: en
titleorder: Reinventing the role of plans in guiding urban transformation: A critical assessment of the capacity of Kumasi’s spatial plans (Ghana) to guide foreseen and unforeseen urban dynamics
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date_issued: 2015-01-01
citation:   Korah, Prosper Issahaku  (2015) Reinventing the role of plans in guiding urban transformation: A critical assessment of the capacity of Kumasi’s spatial plans (Ghana) to guide foreseen and unforeseen urban dynamics.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/929/1/Final_thesis_Prosper.pdf