Gabriel Appiah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Appiah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Appiah |
| SIGNATURE | APPIAH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9303-6018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Private, Public, Personal
Geospatial data sources include data collected by the public sector (i.e., government), private sector (i.e., industry), or through field work. Of these categories, the private sector, especially through tech firms, has provided new types of cutting-edge data sets that are particularly large and novel. These include data from social media platforms and location-based technologies such as Global Positioning Systems and mobile phones. Here, we expl…
Understanding Accra’s housing market
Access to housing data in Ghana has been a challenge for researchers due to the lack of comprehensive data sources. However, the recent availability of big data sources has presented opportunities to bridge this data access gap. Using Greater Accra as a case, this study uses web scraping techniques to acquire publicly available housing data from two major E-commerce websites in Ghana and explores the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area’s (GAMA) preva…
Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning
Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive of a survey of 82 planning practitioners in Ghana and semistructured interviews with 17 of these survey respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences of corruption. We found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by the particularities of planning …
Disaster Preparedness in a Developing Economy
A scholarly article by authors Miriam Porter, Raymond Asomani-Boateng, and Kwaku David Kessey, Gabriel Appiah, Melissa Sonnek published in The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies
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Disaster Preparedness in a Developing Economy
A scholarly article by authors Miriam Porter, Raymond Asomani-Boateng, and Kwaku David Kessey, Gabriel Appiah, Melissa Sonnek published in The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies
Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning
Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive of a survey of 82 planning practitioners in Ghana and semistructured interviews with 17 of these survey respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences of corruption. We found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by the particularities of planning …
Understanding Accra’s housing market
Access to housing data in Ghana has been a challenge for researchers due to the lack of comprehensive data sources. However, the recent availability of big data sources has presented opportunities to bridge this data access gap. Using Greater Accra as a case, this study uses web scraping techniques to acquire publicly available housing data from two major E-commerce websites in Ghana and explores the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area’s (GAMA) preva…
Private, Public, Personal
Geospatial data sources include data collected by the public sector (i.e., government), private sector (i.e., industry), or through field work. Of these categories, the private sector, especially through tech firms, has provided new types of cutting-edge data sets that are particularly large and novel. These include data from social media platforms and location-based technologies such as Global Positioning Systems and mobile phones. Here, we expl…
Geography (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works) · Affordable housing (1 work) · Cartography (1 work)