The increasing urban sprawl in most cities in developing countries continues to attract
attention of national and international agencies but the efforts had not achieved much result …

Development control is a tool or a regulatory process for implementing any physical
Development Plan. The development of land is always in haphazard manner that no …

This paper is basically an overview of the problems of urban land use planning in Nigeria.
Crucial to tackling growing land use problems being experienced in areas with rapid urban …

Major cities in Nigeria grew very rapidly as commercial and administrative centres. An
immediate consequence of the rapid urbanization in these cities is the increase in demand …

Most cities in Nigeria today are in poor state of health and on the heels of widespread loss of
green cover (Mohammed, 2005). The few available open spaces and road-islands in most …

This paper examines residents' level of compliance with planning regulations in different
residential zones of Ado-Ekiti. Data for the study were collected from 154, 165 and 89 …

The peculiar nature of land use dynamics is one of the main challenges besetting Nigerian
cities. It has created environmental problems, urban sprawl and haphazard development …

This paper takes a look at urbanization and environment in Africa megacities with reference
to Nigeria; it enumerates the problems caused by the continued influx of migrant into cities …