Environment and Ecology Research Vol. 4(3), pp. 107 - 115
DOI: 10.13189/eer.2016.040301
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Urban Egalitarianism: The Way forward to Ensure Sustainable Urban Design, Practice and Development in Developing Countries (The Nigerian Case)

Ogunsola Segun Adeola ^*
College of Art & Design and Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

ABSTRACT

Cities and urban development across the world are entities with high complexity, most especially with the unavoidable ever increasing population which incorporates human diversity in culture, wealth and status. However, rapid urbanization and expansion is today a common phenomenon in many developing countries across the world, this is often characterized by challenges such as slum generation, informality, segregation and unequal distribution of infrastructure and resources among neighborhoods in the cities. Cities in developing nations have continued to grow in fragmentations, making their growth much more than the eyes can see, and the ears can hear and varieties of view-points wanting to be explored in great depth. In tackling this urban menace, sustainability and urban transformation through policies and strategies seem to be the major focus and agenda among urban development stakeholders globally. With this development, the environmental and economic spheres of sustainability have been granted higher priority over their social counterpart. However, the key question remains; 'who and which group of people' benefit from these new urban spaces which have been proposed or created. Cities and urban spaces are meant to serve their citizenry irrespective of their class and status in the society, a situation where every individual is incorporated and engaged in the decision making and developmental process of the space in which they exist. In achieving this sustainable development and practice goals, this paper presents various integrated approach in which ‘community and neighborhood‘ should be placed at the center of sustainability analysis and the discussion of spatial connectivity through urban design, development and practice with cases from Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja.

KEYWORDS
Sustainability, Urban Development, Segregation, Spatial Connectivity

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Ogunsola Segun Adeola , "Urban Egalitarianism: The Way forward to Ensure Sustainable Urban Design, Practice and Development in Developing Countries (The Nigerian Case)," Environment and Ecology Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 107 - 115, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2016.040301.

(b). APA Format:
Ogunsola Segun Adeola (2016). Urban Egalitarianism: The Way forward to Ensure Sustainable Urban Design, Practice and Development in Developing Countries (The Nigerian Case). Environment and Ecology Research, 4(3), 107 - 115. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2016.040301.