Spaces & Flows: Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

Abstract

This research links urban expansion resulting from urbanization with changing morphology processes happening in peri-urban communities. Two villages of Kumasi City peri-urban sectors were considered in the case study. Appropriate methodologies and analytical frameworks were adopted to ensure that all pertinent issues of peri-urban interface were brought to light. This was further supported by relevant literature review and empirical evidence. The study found that since peri-urban livelihood is linked with assets base, the stock of asset as well as transformation processes were major factors in the shaping of livelihoods strategies. Therefore, failure or success of livelihoods was seen to relate to the kind of livelihood strategy adopted. With efforts to mitigate for livelihood failure, households’ recourse to remittances, land disposal, and other means emerge as alternative livelihood approaches. The study calls for local government policy interventions in regulating peri-urban transformation processes and providing safety nets for the poor.