L A Asante
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 35045 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L A Asante |
| PRENOMES | L A |
| SOBRENOME | Asante |
| ASSINATURA | ASANTE L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kumasi Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5485-8489 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Beyond generation rent
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
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
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…
From PhD by publication to book
This article offers an autoethnographic reflection on transforming a PhD by publication (PBP) in geography into a scholarly monograph over a nine‐year academic trajectory. While existing scholarship has examined PBP as a doctoral format and post-PhD trajectories, less attention has been given to the conceptual, ethical, and institutional labour involved in converting a publication‐based thesis into a book. Situated within the changing landscape o…
“Invisible frontline”
The recent question – “After COVID-19, is the world ready for the next pandemic?” – posed by the World Health Organization is a reminder of the structural inequalities that shaped the uneven impact of the last pandemic. This article examines the lived experiences of informal workers – head porters and truck pushers – in Ghanaian markets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the structural, gendered, and classed dimensions of their …
Beyond ‘dust and mud’
From markets to ‘mal-kets’
Urban markets in African cities exhibit a complex interplay of six characteristics, namely physical form, social interactions, economic activities, governance structures, cultural values and spatial contestations. These unique characteristics are being disrupted due to the growing penetration of neoliberal urbanism coupled with the desire of municipal authorities to redevelop markets to resemble western-style shopping malls. Drawing on notions of…
Displace, Dump and Cage?’
This paper examines the contested logics of spatial formalization of street trading in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Kumasi (Ghana), two cities shaped by the complex interplay of rising urban informality, colonial legacies, and modernist urban aspirations. Both cities have witnessed increasing tensions between state-driven urban planning initiatives and the everyday spatial practices of informal street traders, who rely on public spaces for their livelih…
The sharing practices of utility costs in compound houses in urban Ghana
Wetland gentrification
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of ecological gentrification has little or no appl…
Integrated urban governance of Covid-19 interventions in Ghanaian cities
It is argued that cities require a specific mode of urban governance to provide an effective response to pandemics and disease outbreaks. This is conceptualized as integrated urban governance, which involves early intervention, strict enforcement, stakeholder collaboration, and the provision of social and economic support to vulnerable groups. Seeing through the perspective of "everyday urban governance" and case studies of three markets in Ghana…
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana
Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly G…
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses
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 politics of market redevelopment in African cities
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana
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…
Behavioural finance, property values and housing conversion in Urban Ghana
Flipping the page
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…
Urban governance in Ghana
This article contributes to the discourse of participatory urban governance through a qualitative analysis of the redevelopment of a market infrastructure in Cape Coast, Ghana. It demonstrates that problems arise with the quantity, distance and size of trading spaces when traders are not made to participate at the construction phase of market redevelopment. The responses of the municipal authorities and the market traders in Cape Coast to these p…
Exploring the Financial Implications of Advance Rent Payment and Induced Furnishing of Rental Housing in Ghanaian Cities
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 …
Pursuing PhD by publication in geography
Several scholars have, over the years, written about their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP). However, little is known about why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their experiences . In this article, we adopt collaborative autoethnography to document our experiences and motivation for choosing the PBP pathway. Based on our experiences, the choice of PBP is primarily influenced by the candidate's previous research exper…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
This article explores Ghana's preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the socio-economic impact of these measures in urban marketplaces. It argues that Ghana's COVID-19 approach in marketplaces was characterised by (1) improving hygiene conditions through disinfection of all markets, (2) closing down markets to enforce social distancing among traders, and (3) imposing a lockdown to decongest de…
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
This article explores Ghana's preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the socio-economic impact of these measures in urban marketplaces. It argues that Ghana's COVID-19 approach in marketplaces was characterised by (1) improving hygiene conditions through disinfection of all markets, (2) closing down markets to enforce social distancing among traders, and (3) imposing a lockdown to decongest de…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Conceptualising marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa
The difficult combination of renting and building a house in urban Ghana
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana
Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly G…
The politics of market redevelopment in African cities
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses
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…
Displace, Dump and Cage?’
This paper examines the contested logics of spatial formalization of street trading in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Kumasi (Ghana), two cities shaped by the complex interplay of rising urban informality, colonial legacies, and modernist urban aspirations. Both cities have witnessed increasing tensions between state-driven urban planning initiatives and the everyday spatial practices of informal street traders, who rely on public spaces for their livelih…
Integrated urban governance of Covid-19 interventions in Ghanaian cities
It is argued that cities require a specific mode of urban governance to provide an effective response to pandemics and disease outbreaks. This is conceptualized as integrated urban governance, which involves early intervention, strict enforcement, stakeholder collaboration, and the provision of social and economic support to vulnerable groups. Seeing through the perspective of "everyday urban governance" and case studies of three markets in Ghana…
Wetland gentrification
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of ecological gentrification has little or no appl…
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana
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
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…
Pursuing PhD by publication in geography
Several scholars have, over the years, written about their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP). However, little is known about why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their experiences . In this article, we adopt collaborative autoethnography to document our experiences and motivation for choosing the PBP pathway. Based on our experiences, the choice of PBP is primarily influenced by the candidate's previous research exper…
Ex-Post Analysis of Land Title Registration in Ghana Since 2008 Merger
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…
The Practice of Defect Liability Period in the Real Estate Industry in Ghana
A study on the dynamics of the defect liability period (DLP) in Ghana is lacking, notwithstanding the fact that it is a common practice in the real estate industry. This study examines the practice of the DLP in Ghana’s real estate industry. The study adopts a combination of simple random and stratified sampling techniques to select 29 members of the Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) and 58 homeowners in Accra. We employ binary and…
The difficult combination of renting and building a house in urban Ghana
The Challenge of Reducing the Incidence of Building Collapse in Ghana
A study of the dynamics of building collapse in Ghana is lacking, notwithstanding the fact that several buildings have collapsed in recent times. This study analyzes the supervisory role and challenges of building inspectors in Kumasi to assess Ghana’s progress toward minimal or zero incidence of building collapse. It adopts the stratified random sampling technique to select 27 out of 35 building inspectors of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KM…
Seeing through African protest logics
Protests in Africa have a long history. Yet, for many years, western misconceptions in protest studies have hindered our understanding of the particularities and commonalities of African protests. In this study, we scrutinize the historical continuity and discontinuity of protests in Africa, using Ghana as a case. We situate a longitudinal analysis of protests in Ghana within the theoretical model of protest logics, using the institutional-analyt…
Conceptualising marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
Urban governance in Ghana
This article contributes to the discourse of participatory urban governance through a qualitative analysis of the redevelopment of a market infrastructure in Cape Coast, Ghana. It demonstrates that problems arise with the quantity, distance and size of trading spaces when traders are not made to participate at the construction phase of market redevelopment. The responses of the municipal authorities and the market traders in Cape Coast to these p…
Exploring the Financial Implications of Advance Rent Payment and Induced Furnishing of Rental Housing in Ghanaian Cities
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 …
Pursuing PhD by publication in geography
Several scholars have, over the years, written about their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP). However, little is known about why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their experiences . In this article, we adopt collaborative autoethnography to document our experiences and motivation for choosing the PBP pathway. Based on our experiences, the choice of PBP is primarily influenced by the candidate's previous research exper…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
This article explores Ghana's preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the socio-economic impact of these measures in urban marketplaces. It argues that Ghana's COVID-19 approach in marketplaces was characterised by (1) improving hygiene conditions through disinfection of all markets, (2) closing down markets to enforce social distancing among traders, and (3) imposing a lockdown to decongest de…
Advance rent mobilisation strategies of graduate renters in Ghana
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…
Behavioural finance, property values and housing conversion in Urban Ghana
Flipping the page
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…
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana
Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly G…
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses
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 politics of market redevelopment in African cities
Wetland gentrification
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of ecological gentrification has little or no appl…
Integrated urban governance of Covid-19 interventions in Ghanaian cities
It is argued that cities require a specific mode of urban governance to provide an effective response to pandemics and disease outbreaks. This is conceptualized as integrated urban governance, which involves early intervention, strict enforcement, stakeholder collaboration, and the provision of social and economic support to vulnerable groups. Seeing through the perspective of "everyday urban governance" and case studies of three markets in Ghana…
The sharing practices of utility costs in compound houses in urban Ghana
Beyond generation rent
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
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…
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