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<p>Cities serve as central hubs for economic activities and population, influencing the distribution of people and enterprises. With rapidly urbanising cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, pressure on land, housing, and infrastructure has intensified over recent years, leading to widespread informal developments and fragmented urban spaces. The situation in Ghana’s oil city is no less different, with a sharp rise in population, a complex land governance system, intense land commodification, socio-economic differentiation, and resistance to planning regulations shaping the urban landscape. This study extends beyond the ideal legal frameworks and well-designed spatial plans to examine how systemic challenges shape urban spaces. A sequential mixed-methods approach was used, drawing on both interviews and survey data from spatial planning committee members, customary authorities, assembly members, and property owners. The quantitative results, based on binary logistic regression, showed limited explanatory power across the selected variables, with Nagelkerke R² values ranging from 0.011 to 0.037. The qualitative findings, however, provided insight into the weak statistical predictive power, revealing weak governance and institutional failures, tenure insecurity, public non-compliance, limited awareness, and procedural gaps as the major drivers of urban spatial change. The study provides relevant policy insight, explaining why, despite several regulatory frameworks and multiple institutional mandates, spatial reality often disconnects from well-prepared spatial plans.</p>

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Systemic challenges and drivers of urban transformation in the oil city of Ghana

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    2026年6月18日

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  • Charles Boateng Opoku,
  • Charles Peprah,
  • Benjamin Doe,
  • Michael Ayertey Nanor

摘要

Cities serve as central hubs for economic activities and population, influencing the distribution of people and enterprises. With rapidly urbanising cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, pressure on land, housing, and infrastructure has intensified over recent years, leading to widespread informal developments and fragmented urban spaces. The situation in Ghana’s oil city is no less different, with a sharp rise in population, a complex land governance system, intense land commodification, socio-economic differentiation, and resistance to planning regulations shaping the urban landscape. This study extends beyond the ideal legal frameworks and well-designed spatial plans to examine how systemic challenges shape urban spaces. A sequential mixed-methods approach was used, drawing on both interviews and survey data from spatial planning committee members, customary authorities, assembly members, and property owners. The quantitative results, based on binary logistic regression, showed limited explanatory power across the selected variables, with Nagelkerke R² values ranging from 0.011 to 0.037. The qualitative findings, however, provided insight into the weak statistical predictive power, revealing weak governance and institutional failures, tenure insecurity, public non-compliance, limited awareness, and procedural gaps as the major drivers of urban spatial change. The study provides relevant policy insight, explaining why, despite several regulatory frameworks and multiple institutional mandates, spatial reality often disconnects from well-prepared spatial plans.