Urban planning
Ghana Participates In World Urban Forum 9
Ghana is participating in the Ninth Session of the United Nations (UN) Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF9) scheduled from...
AMA Appoints Its Second Ever Chief Resilience Officer
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly in partnership 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) has officially announced the appointment of...
Floods, Bad Roads and Collapsing Bridges; Kumasi’s Broad Day Nightmare
Just a couple of years ago, people living in Kumasi would have had a troll at residents of Accra for the perennial...
Viewpoint: Behind the London Tower Block Fire Which Left Many Dead, Injured and Displaced
Authorities in London, England announced on June 19 that 79 deaths have been officially recorded resulting from a fire...
Trying To Help Egypt’s Street Kids
Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother,...
Speaker Meets With Moroccan Housing and Tourism Ministers In Rabat
Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye has held talks with the Ministers of Housing and Tourism in Morocco as...
Looters Cause Chaos At Deadly Philippine Fire
Looters mobbed a deadly slum fire in the Philippine capital on Tuesday, pulling roofing sheets and electric wire from...
Here Is Not My Home!
Here is not my home! In Ghana, both skilled and unskilled migrant workers seek greener pastures in the city of Accra...
From Shabby To Chic, Downtown LA Gets A Facelift
Once a bleak neighborhood of deserted streets and half-empty office buildings, downtown Los Angeles is experiencing a...
Kenya’s Slumdog Footballers Play For Pennies and Pride
Henry Eshiboko considers himself privileged. The 20-year-old lives with his wife and child in a single, windowless,...
New Accra Mayor To Give Agbogbloshie ‘special Attention’
Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Mohammed Adjei Sowah says his administration is going to turn...
Chief Calls For 6-Months Limit Review On Rent Advance
Guantoahene of Gomoa Ajumako Traditional Area, Nana Apata Kofi V, has called for the review of the Rent Control Law to...
Squatters Return To ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’
Hundreds of squatters whose structures were destroyed in a demolition exercise by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...
Smog May Force U-17 Football World Cup Out of Delhi
FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most...
Big Slums Cut Valuation of Real Estate Wealth
Cash-hungry slumlords and politicians have blocked modernisation of Nairobi’s Kibera slum, robbing the economy of...
African Cities Can Soar Economic Growth
The World Bank Group (WBG) say African governments have to prioritise strengthening of land management institutions,...
Reform Land Rights In Cities, World Bank Tells Africa
Land rights are the key to creating jobs, ending poverty and reducing high living costs in Africa's cities, the World...
Revenue Mobilization and the Politics of Real Estate Taxation In Ghana
Fiscal policy to some extent if not large is influenced by political ideology. The previous government led by the...
The La Gas Explosion Is A Land Use Planning Issue
The recent gas explosion at Labadi that resulted in the deaths of about 11 innocent people and over 40 victims who are...