TY - CONF T1 - Estimating the Benefits of Sub-Saharan Africa Urban Land Use Planning System: A Methodological Discussion T2 - 20th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference Y1 - 2013 A1 - Awuah, Kwasi Gyau Baffour A1 - Felix Hammond A1 - Jessica Lamond A1 - Colin Booth KW - Benefit KW - Land Use Planning KW - Methodology KW - Quantitative KW - Sub-Saharan Africa AB -

A large volume of literature discussion focuses on the weakness of sub-Saharan Africa land use planning systems to the exclusion of their benefits. The starting point to any effort at assessing the extent of benefit of these land use planning systems is to devise a suitable benefit estimation methodology. This study based on a review of the literature interrogates the conventional quantitative methodologies usually employed in the developed world to calibrate benefits of planning policies. It is established that conventional methodologies used in the developed world are associated with complexities and require huge volumes of organised data, which are hardly encountered in sub-Saharan Africa. This signifies that a bespoke methodology is required to estimate the benefits of planning regimes in the sub-region. The study, therefore, prescribes a methodology based on the nature of planning regimes and organised data peculiarities in the sub-region.

JA - 20th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference T3 - ERES: Conference CY - Vienna, Austria U3 - RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2013_30 J1 - Conference 2013 ID - oai:eres.id:eres2013_30 M3 - 10.15396/eres2013_30 ER -