Richmond Juvenile Ehwi
Biographic Data
| ID | 939338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richmond Juvenile Ehwi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richmond Juvenile |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehwi |
| SIGNATURE | EHWI R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4679-1472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond generation rent: Tenure restructuring and intergenerational housing inequality in Ghana
Intergenerational housing inequality is commonly framed in terms of delayed homeownership and prolonged renting; however, this framing derives largely from high-income, mortgage-based systems. This paper examines changes in young adults' household position, tenure and housing conditions in Ghana between 2000 and 2021, using harmonised ten per cent microdata from the 2000, 2010 and 2021 Population and Housing Censuses. Binary and multinomial logis…
Gentrification in African cities: A critical review
This article provides a critical review of gentrification research in African cities by assessing its current state and charting future trajectories while engaging with debates about gentrification theory's global reach. Drawing on a critical literature review of 45 peer-reviewed studies conducted in African cities, the paper interrogates four foundational concepts, namely land commodification, rent and value gap dynamics, gentrification actors a…
A Systematic Review of the Global Literature on Gated Communities: A Temporal Perspective
This study systematically reviews 336 peer-reviewed articles on gated communities (1997–2023) to examine thematic evolution and geographic diversification. Guided by a unified conceptual framework, it identifies six meta-themes and traces a transition from early defensive architecture to contemporary sustainable assemblages. The findings also reveal a significant “Southern turn” dominated by China and a conceptual shift where the gate has evolved…
A multidimensional assessment of housing quality and socio-spatial inequality: Evidence from Ghana
Access to adequate housing is fundamental to wellbeing and sustainable development, yet systematic measurement of multidimensional housing quality and its spatial distribution is limited across many rapidly urbanising countries in the Global South. This paper develops a Multidimensional Housing Quality Index (MHQI) using household-level microdata from Ghana's 2021 Population and Housing Census (N = 836,515) and combines it with the Alkire–Foster …
Beyond ‘dust and mud’: Citizenship, governance, and the politics of peri-urban road infrastructure in Kumasi
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England
In England, provision of temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness has often entailed using traditional construction approaches to deliver housing. However, recent experiments are using modular homes to provide temporary accommodation, accompanied by support services for people experiencing homelessness. Given the early nature of these trials, it is unclear what impacts these modular homes have on their occupants and how these …
Towards a co-creative stakeholder engagement in Smart City projects: A life-cycle approach
Engaging stakeholders to co-create Smart Cities is an aspiration for many city governments.However, existing stakeholder engagement frameworks tend to be technologically deterministic from the outset, leaving no room for meaningful cocreation.This paper proposes a framework for engaging stakeholders in Smart City development without presuming an already existing technology which stakeholders must accept.The framework follows the life-cycle approa…
Shaping smart cities: Problem framing, vertical selection and governance in UK smart cities
As urban governments adopt smart city strategies for delivering services, the need to understand how – and in whose interests – these strategies are formed is imperative. The selection of smart city verticals (or areas of focus for smart city programs) within processes of urban governance has implications for which aspects of the urban agenda become prioritized. Through a study of seven UK smart cities, the paper investigates the framing of city …
Walls within walls: Examining the variegated purposes for walling in Ghanaian gated communities”
This paper examines the functions walls perform in gated communities from the standpoints of both gated community developers and their residents. It posits three types of walls and scrutinises the purpose for each. Drawing empirical data from face-to-face interviews with 11 developers and 20 residents drawn from two gated communities in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana, the paper finds that, contrary to received wisdom, internal clust…
Covid-19 and school closure: Examining the impact on private mid-range and low-fee private basic schools in Ghana
The Covid-19 lockdown implemented globally to prevent the spread of the virus has led to the closure of schools. However, insight into the impact of the lockdown on private schools and the responses it has elicited is limited, especially across the African continent. This article examines the impact of the lockdown on private basic schools in Ghana and how they responded to the closure. Following “organizational ambidexterity” and qualitative int…
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Large scale urban development projects, marketed as “new cities,” are emerging across the African continent. However, there is a limited empirical insight into how their partnerships, involving foreign investors and the local African landowners, are brokered, and the extent to which local communities are engaged in such projects. Using the Appolonia City project in Ghana and drawing analytical insights from the DEDA urban governance framework, th…
Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
Fiscal constraints facing municipal governments make gated communities that self-finance their amenities a welcome phenomenon. However, studies exclusively devoted to investigating the types of amenities supplied in gated communities and the factors that determine their supply remain unexplored. This paper fills this gap by using survey data from 51 gated communities sampled across the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) in Ghana. After concep…
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi
This paper investigates housing transformation, the rent gap and gentrification in compound houses in Bantama, a sub-metro in Ghana’s second-largest city, Kumasi. It argues that the ongoing housing transformation has altered the ‘classic’ features of compound houses, namely the dwelling unit, the use of shared space and the socio-demographic profile of households. It demonstrates that the physical transformation of compound houses predominantly i…
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK
As Smart Cities have become more widespread, so too have concerns about their associated ethical issues. However, ethical debates in the current Smart City literature have tended to focus on issues related to the collection, processing, usage, storage and sharing of data. This paper argues that ethical debates should be extended to capture crucial decisions taken as part of Smart City governance, and the ethical references which underpin them. Us…
Built environment of Britain in 2040: Scenarios and strategies
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: A submarket of the private rental housing market
The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2 or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is limited empirical research investigating how renters mobilize funds to meet this financial commitment. Existing literature suggests that renters, irrespective of their educational level, face difficulties in paying advance rent, hence compelling them to rely mainl…
Gated communities and land administration challenges in Ghana: Reappraising the reasons why people move into gated communities
Gated communities are proliferating in most developing countries. Scholars, however, continue to rely on mainstream demand-based arguments mostly framed in developed countries to explain this phenomenon, without giving sufficient attention to context-specific factors. Presenting the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana and using household surveys and key informant interviews, this article emphasizes Ghana’s land administration cha…
Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors
Flipping the page: Exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants' remittances and their living conditions in the UK
Migrants’ remittance to close relatives and acquaintances back home has been widely studied. However, little is known about the impact remittances have on the living conditions of migrants who send these remittances. This paper hypothesises that migrants often deprive themselves of better living conditions in their host countries in order to regularly remit home. We test this hypothesis using survey data from 129 Ghanaian migrants living in the U…
Exploring the Financial Implications of Advance Rent Payment and Induced Furnishing of Rental Housing in Ghanaian Cities: The Case of Dansoman, Accra-Ghana
Across the globe, private rental housing performs a critical role within modern housing systems. However, the nature of the sector, the households it serves, and the contractual landlord–tenant relationships are markedly different. In this article, we explore Ghana’s informal rental housing market, which provides accommodation to most renters because of limited housing in the formal housing sector. Drawing on exploratory research and survey data …
Ex-Post Analysis of Land Title Registration in Ghana Since 2008 Merger: Accra Lands Commission in Perspective
Land ownership and security of title have continued to dominate land management discourses in many developing economies, leading to a proliferation of studies that explore, among other things, the nexus between land title registration and land security, women’s access to land, innovation in agriculture, access to finance, and economic development. For many years, Ghana experienced minimal success in formalizing land ownership and title registrati…
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Large scale urban development projects, marketed as “new cities,” are emerging across the African continent. However, there is a limited empirical insight into how their partnerships, involving foreign investors and the local African landowners, are brokered, and the extent to which local communities are engaged in such projects. Using the Appolonia City project in Ghana and drawing analytical insights from the DEDA urban governance framework, th…
Gated communities and land administration challenges in Ghana: Reappraising the reasons why people move into gated communities
Gated communities are proliferating in most developing countries. Scholars, however, continue to rely on mainstream demand-based arguments mostly framed in developed countries to explain this phenomenon, without giving sufficient attention to context-specific factors. Presenting the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana and using household surveys and key informant interviews, this article emphasizes Ghana’s land administration cha…
Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi
This paper investigates housing transformation, the rent gap and gentrification in compound houses in Bantama, a sub-metro in Ghana’s second-largest city, Kumasi. It argues that the ongoing housing transformation has altered the ‘classic’ features of compound houses, namely the dwelling unit, the use of shared space and the socio-demographic profile of households. It demonstrates that the physical transformation of compound houses predominantly i…
Shaping smart cities: Problem framing, vertical selection and governance in UK smart cities
As urban governments adopt smart city strategies for delivering services, the need to understand how – and in whose interests – these strategies are formed is imperative. The selection of smart city verticals (or areas of focus for smart city programs) within processes of urban governance has implications for which aspects of the urban agenda become prioritized. Through a study of seven UK smart cities, the paper investigates the framing of city …
Walls within walls: Examining the variegated purposes for walling in Ghanaian gated communities”
This paper examines the functions walls perform in gated communities from the standpoints of both gated community developers and their residents. It posits three types of walls and scrutinises the purpose for each. Drawing empirical data from face-to-face interviews with 11 developers and 20 residents drawn from two gated communities in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana, the paper finds that, contrary to received wisdom, internal clust…
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: A submarket of the private rental housing market
The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2 or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is limited empirical research investigating how renters mobilize funds to meet this financial commitment. Existing literature suggests that renters, irrespective of their educational level, face difficulties in paying advance rent, hence compelling them to rely mainl…
Flipping the page: Exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants' remittances and their living conditions in the UK
Migrants’ remittance to close relatives and acquaintances back home has been widely studied. However, little is known about the impact remittances have on the living conditions of migrants who send these remittances. This paper hypothesises that migrants often deprive themselves of better living conditions in their host countries in order to regularly remit home. We test this hypothesis using survey data from 129 Ghanaian migrants living in the U…
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK
As Smart Cities have become more widespread, so too have concerns about their associated ethical issues. However, ethical debates in the current Smart City literature have tended to focus on issues related to the collection, processing, usage, storage and sharing of data. This paper argues that ethical debates should be extended to capture crucial decisions taken as part of Smart City governance, and the ethical references which underpin them. Us…
Ex-Post Analysis of Land Title Registration in Ghana Since 2008 Merger: Accra Lands Commission in Perspective
Land ownership and security of title have continued to dominate land management discourses in many developing economies, leading to a proliferation of studies that explore, among other things, the nexus between land title registration and land security, women’s access to land, innovation in agriculture, access to finance, and economic development. For many years, Ghana experienced minimal success in formalizing land ownership and title registrati…
Exploring the Financial Implications of Advance Rent Payment and Induced Furnishing of Rental Housing in Ghanaian Cities: The Case of Dansoman, Accra-Ghana
Across the globe, private rental housing performs a critical role within modern housing systems. However, the nature of the sector, the households it serves, and the contractual landlord–tenant relationships are markedly different. In this article, we explore Ghana’s informal rental housing market, which provides accommodation to most renters because of limited housing in the formal housing sector. Drawing on exploratory research and survey data …
Built environment of Britain in 2040: Scenarios and strategies
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: A submarket of the private rental housing market
The practice of advance rent, where landlords ask renters to pay a lump-sum rent covering 2 or more years, is gaining scholarly and political attention in Africa. Nevertheless, there is limited empirical research investigating how renters mobilize funds to meet this financial commitment. Existing literature suggests that renters, irrespective of their educational level, face difficulties in paying advance rent, hence compelling them to rely mainl…
Gated communities and land administration challenges in Ghana: Reappraising the reasons why people move into gated communities
Gated communities are proliferating in most developing countries. Scholars, however, continue to rely on mainstream demand-based arguments mostly framed in developed countries to explain this phenomenon, without giving sufficient attention to context-specific factors. Presenting the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana and using household surveys and key informant interviews, this article emphasizes Ghana’s land administration cha…
Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors
Flipping the page: Exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants' remittances and their living conditions in the UK
Migrants’ remittance to close relatives and acquaintances back home has been widely studied. However, little is known about the impact remittances have on the living conditions of migrants who send these remittances. This paper hypothesises that migrants often deprive themselves of better living conditions in their host countries in order to regularly remit home. We test this hypothesis using survey data from 129 Ghanaian migrants living in the U…
Covid-19 and school closure: Examining the impact on private mid-range and low-fee private basic schools in Ghana
The Covid-19 lockdown implemented globally to prevent the spread of the virus has led to the closure of schools. However, insight into the impact of the lockdown on private schools and the responses it has elicited is limited, especially across the African continent. This article examines the impact of the lockdown on private basic schools in Ghana and how they responded to the closure. Following “organizational ambidexterity” and qualitative int…
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Large scale urban development projects, marketed as “new cities,” are emerging across the African continent. However, there is a limited empirical insight into how their partnerships, involving foreign investors and the local African landowners, are brokered, and the extent to which local communities are engaged in such projects. Using the Appolonia City project in Ghana and drawing analytical insights from the DEDA urban governance framework, th…
Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
Fiscal constraints facing municipal governments make gated communities that self-finance their amenities a welcome phenomenon. However, studies exclusively devoted to investigating the types of amenities supplied in gated communities and the factors that determine their supply remain unexplored. This paper fills this gap by using survey data from 51 gated communities sampled across the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) in Ghana. After concep…
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi
This paper investigates housing transformation, the rent gap and gentrification in compound houses in Bantama, a sub-metro in Ghana’s second-largest city, Kumasi. It argues that the ongoing housing transformation has altered the ‘classic’ features of compound houses, namely the dwelling unit, the use of shared space and the socio-demographic profile of households. It demonstrates that the physical transformation of compound houses predominantly i…
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK
As Smart Cities have become more widespread, so too have concerns about their associated ethical issues. However, ethical debates in the current Smart City literature have tended to focus on issues related to the collection, processing, usage, storage and sharing of data. This paper argues that ethical debates should be extended to capture crucial decisions taken as part of Smart City governance, and the ethical references which underpin them. Us…
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England
In England, provision of temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness has often entailed using traditional construction approaches to deliver housing. However, recent experiments are using modular homes to provide temporary accommodation, accompanied by support services for people experiencing homelessness. Given the early nature of these trials, it is unclear what impacts these modular homes have on their occupants and how these …
Towards a co-creative stakeholder engagement in Smart City projects: A life-cycle approach
Engaging stakeholders to co-create Smart Cities is an aspiration for many city governments.However, existing stakeholder engagement frameworks tend to be technologically deterministic from the outset, leaving no room for meaningful cocreation.This paper proposes a framework for engaging stakeholders in Smart City development without presuming an already existing technology which stakeholders must accept.The framework follows the life-cycle approa…
Shaping smart cities: Problem framing, vertical selection and governance in UK smart cities
As urban governments adopt smart city strategies for delivering services, the need to understand how – and in whose interests – these strategies are formed is imperative. The selection of smart city verticals (or areas of focus for smart city programs) within processes of urban governance has implications for which aspects of the urban agenda become prioritized. Through a study of seven UK smart cities, the paper investigates the framing of city …
Walls within walls: Examining the variegated purposes for walling in Ghanaian gated communities”
This paper examines the functions walls perform in gated communities from the standpoints of both gated community developers and their residents. It posits three types of walls and scrutinises the purpose for each. Drawing empirical data from face-to-face interviews with 11 developers and 20 residents drawn from two gated communities in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana, the paper finds that, contrary to received wisdom, internal clust…
Beyond generation rent: Tenure restructuring and intergenerational housing inequality in Ghana
Intergenerational housing inequality is commonly framed in terms of delayed homeownership and prolonged renting; however, this framing derives largely from high-income, mortgage-based systems. This paper examines changes in young adults' household position, tenure and housing conditions in Ghana between 2000 and 2021, using harmonised ten per cent microdata from the 2000, 2010 and 2021 Population and Housing Censuses. Binary and multinomial logis…
Gentrification in African cities: A critical review
This article provides a critical review of gentrification research in African cities by assessing its current state and charting future trajectories while engaging with debates about gentrification theory's global reach. Drawing on a critical literature review of 45 peer-reviewed studies conducted in African cities, the paper interrogates four foundational concepts, namely land commodification, rent and value gap dynamics, gentrification actors a…
A Systematic Review of the Global Literature on Gated Communities: A Temporal Perspective
This study systematically reviews 336 peer-reviewed articles on gated communities (1997–2023) to examine thematic evolution and geographic diversification. Guided by a unified conceptual framework, it identifies six meta-themes and traces a transition from early defensive architecture to contemporary sustainable assemblages. The findings also reveal a significant “Southern turn” dominated by China and a conceptual shift where the gate has evolved…
A multidimensional assessment of housing quality and socio-spatial inequality: Evidence from Ghana
Access to adequate housing is fundamental to wellbeing and sustainable development, yet systematic measurement of multidimensional housing quality and its spatial distribution is limited across many rapidly urbanising countries in the Global South. This paper develops a Multidimensional Housing Quality Index (MHQI) using household-level microdata from Ghana's 2021 Population and Housing Census (N = 836,515) and combines it with the Alkire–Foster …
Beyond ‘dust and mud’: Citizenship, governance, and the politics of peri-urban road infrastructure in Kumasi
Business (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Finance (5 works)