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Dec 4, 1997Keywords:
Socio-Economic Housing Environment Neighbourhood Unit Rehabilitation Conservation Tourism
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Cape Coast: Prospects for Renewing a Decaying City
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A Close study of a selected residential area in Cape Coast. in terms of its socio-economic attributes and the housing environment, revealed stagnation in the living circumstances of the residential families as well as a rapid deterioration in the historic physical structures in which they dwell. This paper addresses some of the findings during a study of the Dawson Hill neighborhood unit. These findings provide an insight into some of the problems in a historic town such as Cape Coast and looks at passible was of using its liability as an old decaying city to revive it through the potential of Conservation and Tourism, with possible suggestions as to how this could be achieved
