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Item Actor-network, conflict and the commodification of planning: Role of traditional food markets in shaping the built environment(ELSEVIER, 2020) Odeyale, T. O.This paper examines the processes of transformation of the architecture and spatial character of a Nigerian city, in (he planning and delivery of a sustainable built environment. It examines the intei dependency ot 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. Therefore, the meanings attached to the market and its built environment has not only changed on several levels front tire symbolic, sacred, religious use to commercial and mundane one but also has taken on new spatial forms in sustaining the life of the city due to the activities of tire various actors which is predicated on their worldview. Tire paper provides a detailed examination of the geographical location of the old mar ket built environment, in r elation to the expansion of the city over tittte. It traces historical changes hr the surrounding urban scape of the market, in particular, the location of developments, marry originating front tire colonial period, and their httpact on tire life of tire marker over time. It relates, how these historical relationships are registered both topographically and spatially providing supporting visual material such as maps and developmental plans. This paper fur ther expatiates on the understanding of negotiation and conflict that ensued during the inter action within the material environment of the city through the pr ism of the role of actors (government officials, users, planners, politicians) involved with the built marketplace in the snrdy area. Analyses provided through interpretive anthropology which is synchronic in nature (focus at events in a slice of rime) and those provided by Actor Network Theory (ANT) that is diachronic (focus on dynamic events through tune), i.e. anthropology focuses more ort the “static" past whereas ANT focuses on the activities of the actants in “dynamic" or "real-time". The paper concludes that theoretical and cultural interpretation impacts the physical mar ketplace, its form, character, and spatiality; this must itself be understood as an agent or actant in the struggle, in as much as it both enables and constrains human activities.Item 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.Item Actor network theory, construction of meanings and some aspects of non-ordered space: exploring the boundaries of responsive built environment(2015) Odeyale, T. 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. The article conpludes that theoretical and cultural interpretation impacts the physical marketplace, its form, character and spatiality; this must itself be understood as an agent or actant in the struggle, in as much as it both enables and constrains human activities.Item 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.