FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
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Item Reflections on the Impact of Urban Sprawl on the Architecture of the City: Lessons from Benin City, Nigeria(Forum Geografi, 2023) Odeyale, T. O.This paper focuses on Benin City, Nigeria, as a case study to explore urban sprawl and its associated problems resulting from unplanned and uncontrolled spatial expansion. Informal settlements house approximately 45% of Nigeria's urban population, leading to land and environmental challenges. The study aims to investigate how sustainable development goals can be realized through efficient, sustainable planning and urban design concepts, focusing on managing urban sprawl in the city. The methodology comprises a literature review, a field investigation of unplanned or squatter settlements in a selected part of Benin City through the administration of 201 questionnaires, and an analysis of its developments and physical transformations. Understanding the issues of urban sprawl arising from the rapid spatial expansion of Benin City is crucial for achieving a well-organized, planned, orderly, and sustainable environment. This paper provides valuable insights and information to facilitate effective urban planning in the study area. Additionally, it offers guidance to practitioners and developers on adopting sustainability measures in their projects. The findings of this study contribute to expanding the knowledge horizon and serve as a reference for further research on spatial expansion and the incidence of sprawl in urban centers throughout Nigeria.Item Urban Space and Contingent Meanings of the Built Environment in Nigeria(2019) Odeyale, T. O; Ige, O, D.The re-interpretation of the spatial character of the city is continuously re-making the appearance of the urban centres in the contemporary milieu. This paper argues that urban transformations are born out of conflicts resulting in spatial urban boundaries becoming blurred and creations of vulnerable urban spaces. Such spaces are continuously being renegotiated through the activities and reactions in the built environment due to the actions o f different stakeholders and powerful actants. Using methodological approaches that include interviews, participant observation, and topographical analysis, it further examines the conflict or tension as change takes place during inner city development. By identifying various negotiations amongst the urban users with different interests and choices and ways they have appropriated urban space in recent times in Southwest Nigeria Findings revealed that powerful actants have problematized, mobilized and deployed resources in order to achieve their vision ofwhat form the built environment should take, and not necessarily what is sustainable. The paper concludes by underscoring the preservation of the essential parts o f the urban character and cultural life of the cityItem Culture, technology and sustainable development: a rational utilization of the nigerian built environment(2007) Fadamiro, J. A.; Odeyale, T.O.The paper sought to discuss the meaning and essence of technology and culture in the management and sustainability of the built environment. It enumerates the urban development process, concept of sustainability as it affects the quality of the built environment. It examines in details, the principles and values of culture as indicators for the sustainability of the environment. The paper concludes by recommending for the enactment and enforcement of relevant policies with adequate education of the entire people and the involvement of all the stakeholders in the management of the environmental programmes taking absolute cognizance of the people’s cultureItem Traditional food markets, power relations and waste management: a qualitative study(WIT Press, 2009) Odeyale, T. O.; Omole, F. k.; Sodagar, B.; Temple, N.; Coill, C. O.The rapid urbanization of Sub-Saharan Africa from a purely agrarian society to a city based one is an interesting phenomenon to study. However, recent studies have shown that there is a lack of understanding of socio-cultural factors and subtle power relations that brought about these transformations, especially in developing society. Thus, the paper reports a qualitative study in which interviews were conducted and sizeable numbers of open ended questionnaires were administered and analysed based on the Actor Network Theory. The study examines the often overlooked factors that have impacted on the growth of the built environment, by taking a closer look at the urban centre in relation to the main food market called Oja Oba located in the centre of the city of Akure, Nigeria. During the course of the field research, respondents observed that the general appearance of the city, urban lifestyle and city liveability is directly impacted by the issue of food waste, waste generation and waste disposal. This paper concludes that in the drive towards a sustainable city in the developing world and effective waste management there is need to understand the layers of underlying socio-cultural issues that prompted these changes which are subtle and sometime quite sudden with intended and unintended consequences. Keywords: anthropology, sustainable development, globalization, social institutions, food market, urbanization.