Urbanization In Ghana Case Study

5.4 Recommendations
Based on the major findings of this study, the following suggestions are hereby put forwards for consideration:
i. Urbanization has risen unabated in Ghana over the years resulting in deplorable housing and environmental conditions. The situation has led to severe social problems, the culminating effects of which are insecurity of lives and property, and poor health and productivity of the urban dwellers. There is an overarching need to arrest the rapid rate of urbanization in the country. Government policies have to be revisited to slow down the urbanization process. Integrated rural development is imperative in this regard. This should involve the location of educational and health institutions in the rural areas, provision

While urbanization levels and trends closely mirror global patterns of industrialization and economic development, this is still a remarkable transformation when compared with the situation at the beginning of the 20th Century, when only 13 per cent of the population lived in urban areas and there were just sixteen cities in the world that contained at least a million people. Today, there are almost 400 cities around the world that contain more than a million residents and about seventy percent of these are in less developed countries. Rural–urban migration as a result of employment opportunities and social amenities in cities have been important determinants of rapid urban growth but there has also been a general convergence in lifestyles between urban and rural areas as advances in transportation and telecommunication have caused distance and time to collapse. Urban functions are being spread over larger and larger geographic areas so that the traditional distinction between urban and rural areas is becoming increasingly redundant for many purposes.
The purpose of this study was to examine the trend of urbanization in Ghana and investigate its effect on the standard of living of the people in the urban areas. It notes the occurrence of rapid rate of urbanization occurring in the country, the consequences of which have been severely degraded urban environmental condition, low standard of living, high social vices (destitution and crime rate etc) in the cities. It also reports the poor housing conditions in Madina area of Accra as more people live in single rooms with epileptic power supply and shortage of water