PhD schol application deadline extension to June 1 to work with Pauline McGuirk ACCESS geog&enviro with great ARCDP team on Urban Governance Innovation.

Hello friends, we are conducting a research on tenants' mobilisation strategies of rent advance in Ghana. If you are tenant in Ghana, please take part in our research. You may also share with friends and colleagues who renting accommodation in Ghana. cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6x…

340,000 Melburnians have little or no parkland within 5km of their home theconversation.com/340-000-melbur… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Smart urban development strategies in Africa? An analysis of multiple ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sharing our latest publication on enclave urbanism in Ghana. authors.elsevier.com/a/1dqdByDvMI9j…

During Women’s month, I’m honored to host Professor Esther Duflo of MIT, the 2019 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, at our “Africa Economics Seminar Series” on Thursday (3/24). Professor Duflo is only the second woman to win the Nobel prize in Economics… This must change!

1/ In 1930, the colonial govt of Gold Coast (now Ghana) bought about 5 sq km of land in Achimota, marginally increasing its meagre land holdings, to set up a Forest Reserve. In 2013, the govt transformed the reserve into an Eco-park. This month, the Prez ended the reserve status.

I’m pleased to share that I have been awarded Urban Studies Foundation (USF) International Fellowship for my project “New cities in Ghana”. I will be working with Patrick Brandful Cobbinah at Melbourne School of Design.

New online article Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA). Prosper Korah, Lazarus Jambadu, Abraham Marshall Nunbogu call for a planned extension of secondary cities in Africa. #AfricanCities #UrbanStudies #planning #geography #BuiltEnvironment Patrick Brandful Cobbinah Urban Affairs Association doi.org/10.1080/073521…

Happy to see this important paper on Just Urban Transformation in African cities published in the Journal of Planning Literature. Thanks @BtheFinn for the collaboration: doi.org/10.1177/088541…

Understanding Accra’s housing market: an exploratory study using user-generated data tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Embedding cities within cities: the phenomenon of new cities and spatial transformation in Africa." Join this University of Melbourne hybrid seminar with Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow Prosper Korah 22/03/23 @msdsocial >>> urbanstudiesfoundation.org/events/embeddi…

NOW OPEN: Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 20/06/23. These awards are exclusively intended to support urban scholars from the Global South w/ fully-funded 3-9 month research visits. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/intern…

Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow Prosper Korah on "Embedding cities within cities: the phenomenon of new cities and spatial transformation in Africa" 📺youtube.com/watch?v=ZsOHrw…

NEW: Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana. buff.ly/42E5kgQ Routledge Geog&Built Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City Urban Affairs Association Bernadette Hanlon Mbappe Jnr🍯 ⚽️ #collaborative #UrbanPlanning #Africa

USF International Fellow Prosper Korah published a chapter in the 2023 book, Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa, with Cambridge University Press. Read it here: ow.ly/khTI50QkB2w

Beyond the known: Walking accessibility twist to new cities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In a recent working paper, @patrickbrandful (@msdsocial) & @pi_korah (SDD Univ. of Business and Integrated Dev't Studies) investigate this question and examine city management institutions’ preparedness to apply land-based financing strategies to manage climate change. Check out their findings: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/2024-…