FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

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    Social and cultural construction of healthy city in subsaharan africa: a case study of urban conflicts and modernisation agenda in ondo state, Nigeria
    (Cambridge Publications and Research International, 2015) Odeyale, T. O; Olalekan, K.
    This paper examines the processes of transformation of the architecture and spatial character of a Nigerian city, in the achievement of a healthy and sustainable built environment. Objectives: It investigates the conflicts, tensions and negotiations that take place between those city dwellers embedded in the context of traditions and those pursuing a modernization agenda at a time when new infrastructures (hospitals, food markets and Automobile Markets) are being introduced in Akure. The study demonstrates that in order to understand how the built marketplace is made, unmade and reassembled, it is necessary to know how the worldviews of market users, sellers and policymakers are both culturally and socially constructed. Method Used: Interpretive anthropology and Actor Network Theory are used to explore the unwritten ritual practices, persistent traditional values, conflicts and socio-cultural transformations that underlie the physical built environment in which the health and social facilities are located. Findings: The research shows that the character of the built environment and social infrastructures within the city is not simply an outcome of national decision making, but is driven by the cultural preferences and diverging social interests of ‘actants ’ as they negotiate the process of change between tradition and modernity and make choices.
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    Actor Network, Conflict and the Commodification of Planning: Role of Traditional Food Markets in Shaping the Built Environment of Akure Metropolis, Nigeria
    (2015) Odeyale, T. O.; Fagbemi, K.; Olalekan, K.; Adetunji, O.
    This article examines the processes of transformation of the architecture and spatial character of a Nigerian city, in the planning and delivery of a sustainable built environment. It examines the inter-dependency or relationship between the traditional market space and the city which is constantly being challenged, adapted and simultaneously undermined by the city’s rapid growth and modernisation. The process of change towards modernisation led to the demolition of existing traditional market structures.to give way to ‘modern’ ones without any reference to the ritualistic or cultural significance of these markets or the interests of market users. Using methodological tools provided by combination of Actor Network theory (ANT) and interpretive anthropology in gaining insight into how various actants in the built marketplace, live and interact together to shape the city. This article traces historical changes in the surrounding urbanscape of the market, in particular the location of developments, many originating from the colonial period, of adjacent or nearby civic/commercial buildings and educational institutions and their impact on the life of the city and market over time. Findings suggest that the meanings attached to the market and its built environment has not only changed on several levels from the symbolic, sacred, religious use to commercial and mundane one, but also has taken on new sp'atial forms due to the activities of the various actors which is predicated on their worldview.