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Mapping urban living standards and economic activity in developing countries with energy data by Agyemang, Felix S. K, Memon, Rashid, Fox, Sean

“…Urban data deficits in developing countries impede evidence-based planning and policy. Could energy data be used to overcome this challenge by serving as a…”
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High-resolution rural poverty mapping in Pakistan with ensemble deep learning by Agyemang, Felix S K, Memon, Rashid, Wolf, Levi John, Fox, Sean

“…High resolution poverty mapping supports evidence-based policy and research, yet about half of all countries lack the survey data needed to generate useful…”
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Quantifying the spatio-temporal patterns of settlement growth in a metropolitan region of Ghana by Acheampong, Ransford A., Agyemang, Felix S. K., Abdul-Fatawu, Mohammed

“…Retrospective understanding of the magnitude and pace of urban expansion is necessary for effective growth management in metropolitan regions. The objective of…”
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Recognising the barriers to securing affordable housing through the land use planning system in Sub-Saharan Africa: A perspective from Ghana by Agyemang, Felix SK, Morrison, Nicky

“…Housing low-income households is a daunting task for policy makers across the Global South, and especially for those in Africa where past attempts to deliver…”
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Towards sustainable urban development: the social acceptability of high-rise buildings in a Ghanaian city by Agyemang, Felix S. K., Silva, Elisabete, Anokye, Prince Aboagye

“…Over the years, many city managers, policy makers and academics alike have turned to high-rise buildings as pathway to sustainable urban development. However,…”
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The emergence of city-regions and their implications for contemporary spatial governance: Evidence from Ghana by Agyemang, Felix S.K., Amedzro, Kofi Kekeli, Silva, Elisabete

“…Over the years, urbanization has triggered complex spatial processes, such as the evolution of city-regions that defy traditional administrative regional…”
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Simulating the urban growth of a predominantly informal Ghanaian city-region with a cellular automata model: Implications for urban planning and policy by Agyemang, Felix S.K., Silva, Elisabete

“…This paper explores two main objectives: first, simulates the urban growth of a Ghanaian city-region with a CA model, drawing implications for urban planning…”
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Understanding the urban spatial structure of Sub-Saharan African cities using the case of urban development patterns of a Ghanaian city-region by Agyemang, Felix S.K., Silva, Elisabete, Poku-Boansi, Michael

“…Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing massive spatial transformation owing to rapid urbanization. For many cities in the Global North, Latin America and…”
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Mapping urban living standards and economic activity in developing countries with energy data by Felix S. K. Agyemang, Rashid Memon, Sean Fox

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Modelling and simulating ‘informal urbanization’: An integrated agent-based and cellular automata model of urban residential growth in Ghana by Agyemang, Felix S. K., Silva, Elisabete, Fox, Sean

“…The global urban population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion over the next three decades, and 90% of this growth will occur in African and Asian countries…”
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