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Irene Appeaning Addo

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor of African Architecture, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES SECRETARIAT
African ArchitectureUrbanismHousingUrban StudiesAfrican cities
Publications

37

Citations

544

H-index

12

i10-index

13

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
14.7
Most cited paper
174
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:17
Publications

37 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Assessing residential satisfaction among low income households in multi-habited dwellings in selected low income communities in Accra
IA Addo
2016 Urban Studies 53 (4), 631-650, 2016 Social Sciences 174
Perceptions and acceptability of multihabitation as an urban low income housing strategy in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
I Appeaning Addo
2013 Urban Forum 24 (4), 543-571, 2013 Social Sciences 48
Coastal erosion management in Accra: Combining local knowledge and empirical research
KA Addo, IA Addo
2016 Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 8 (1), 1-10, 2016 Social Sciences 45
Urban low income housing development in Ghana: Politics, policy and challenges
IA Addo
2014 Urban planning: Practices, challenges and benefits, 89-118, 2014 Social Sciences 37
Evaluation of thermal comfort in library buildings in the tropical climate of Kumasi, Ghana
H Mohammadpourkarbasi, I Jackson, D Nukpezah, IA Addo, RA Oppong
2022 Energy and Buildings 268, 112210, 2022 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 30
10. Assessing Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices and Challenges in the Techiman Municipality, Ghana
IA Addo, O Alhassan, S Abokyi, S Kutor
2020 West African Journal of Applied Ecology 28 (2), 118-131, 2020 Social Sciences 21
Genealogies of Ghana’s housing crisis: the role of colonial interventions and neoliberal reforms
I Appeaning Addo, CC Mba
2022 International Journal of Housing Policy 22 (2), 299-313, 2022 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 20
African proverbs for cultural education: A step towards digital archiving
D Adom, JE Chukwuere, IA Addo, E Tabi-Agyei, PFY Thulla
2021 Journal of history culture and art research 10 (4), 44-59, 2021 Social Sciences 20
Meeting the sustainable development goals: Considerations for household and indoor air pollution in Nigeria and Ghana
IA Addo, OA Olajide
2021 Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa, 147-164, 2021 Social Sciences 19
The Volta River Project: planning, housing and resettlement in Ghana, 1950–1965
I Jackson, O Uduku, IAARA Opong
2019 The Journal of Architecture 24 (4), 512-548, 2019 Engineering 19
New homes for a new state: foreign ideas in Ghana’s public housing programmes
IA Addo
2022 Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities …, 2022 Engineering 15
Traditional earth houses in Vittin, Tamale: identity and perception of the tradition-modernity conflict
IA Addo
2016 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 4 (1), 97-128, 2016 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 15
Examining change and permanence in traditional earthen construction in Ghana: a case study of Tamale and Wa
I Appeaning Addo, I Yakubu, AS Gagnon, CTS Beckett, Y Huang, ...
2025 Built Heritage 9 (1), 2, 2025 Engineering 10
The effect of the 1987 education reforms on youth unemployment in Ghana: An exploratory study
IK Biney, IA Addo, M Abu
2015 Current Politics and Economics of Africa 8 (4), 513-535, 2015 Social Sciences 9
Bio-stabilising earthen houses with tannins from locally available resources
A Bras, I Yakubu, H Mohammed, I Idowu, R Jones, AS Gagnon, ...
2024 Case Studies in Construction Materials 20, e03182, 2024 Engineering 8
Dealing with COVID-19 in Ghanaian urban shared low-income housing: What it reveals and the planning implications
IA Addo, D Atobrah, M Frehiwot, BK Kwansa
2023 Cities 142, 104555, 2023 Social Sciences 8
Negotiating Spaces, Exercising Agency, and Managing Multiple Roles: The Lived Experiences of University of Ghana Women Academics under COVID-19
M Frehiwot, D Atobrah, I Appeaning-Addo
2022 Feminist Africa 3 (1), 2022 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 8
Accra Airport City I: A global space and an exclusionary enclave
IA Addo
2025 Journal of Asian and African Studies 60 (6), 4022-4036, 2025 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 6
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana
I Appeaning Addo
2023 Journal of African Cultural Studies 35 (1), 104-120, 2023 Humanities 5
Blurring the boundaries: everyday urbanism in Accra Airport City
IA Addo
2026 Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban …, 2026 Social Sciences 4
Climate change linked to failing fisheries in coastal Ghana
O Pabi, SNA Codjoe, NA Sah, I Appeaning Addo
2015 WRENmedia, 2015 Natural Sciences 4
Beadmaking as a pedagogical site: Transcending the traditional walls between the academy and the community
ET Lawer, SA Ntewusu, IA Addo, KO Aidoo, CC Mba
2025 Cultural Studies of Science Education 20 (3), 275-292, 2025 Humanities 3
“Kingsway leads the way to modern living”: British Profit-seeking and Modernism in Ghana and Nigeria 1920–1970
E Harrison, I Jackson, I Appeaning Addo, O Muraina
2024 Journal of Design History 37 (3), 217-235, 2024 Humanities 3
Exploring the link between fisher folks' experimental knowledge and climate variability in an urban coastal community Inaccra
I Appeaning Addo, SNA Codjoe
2016 Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems 15 (2), 71-87, 2016 Social Sciences 3
Housing maintenance in multi-habited low income houses in Accra
IA Addo
2014 Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies ISSN 2153, 6813, 2014 Engineering 3