RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY IN KADUNA METROPOLIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON URBAN MANAGEMENT
RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY IN KADUNA METROPOLIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON URBAN MANAGEMENT
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1999-12
Authors
BAGE, DODO SHAMAKI.
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ABSTRACT
During the last three decades, Nigerian Urban centres have witnessec
unparalleled upsurge in both human numbers and structural configuration. This
was predicated by the oil boom of the 1970s with its attendant emphasis on
Urban Development, the glitter of which "pulled" the rural populace towards
these Urban Areas. Increased urbanism resulted in a general increase in
mobility. This was especially evident in housing in which the growing population
had to be provided with adequate housing. But urban development programmes
has too often produced only a tiny fraction of housing requirements for the
teaming population and where private enterprise has produced housing whose
price is beyond the reach of a greater percentage of the population. Low income
groups have therefore been left to the exigencies of market forces and the
filtering process.
Under this, housing units may shift from owner-occupier to rental status
or rental status to owner occupier depending on downward or upward shifts in
income and social status of property owner and Renters. The characteristics of
occupants alter over time; hence a given unit may serve a family at different
stages of its life cycle.
The extent to which residential mobility takes place is a function of the
variations in price of new construction, spatial location, rent differentials, the
information network, the demand for housing at particular points in time, the
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effectiveness of estate agents and the degree of adherance to rent controls by
landlords. In short, there is a ferment of physical, economic, social and legal
movement that takes place in residential mobility as the process is continually
adapting to the changing requirements of the society.
This Thesis is an attempt to examine the characteristics and determinants
of residential mobility in Kaduna Metropolis. It has five chapters.
Chapter one is an introductory chapter which defines the research
problem, its aim and objectives, methods of data collection and analysis and a
background to the study area. It also identifies types of residential movements
and their spatial components.
Chapter two provides an in-depth literature on the concept, pattern and
process of residential change.
Chapter three examines the characteristics and determinants of the
phenomenon in the metropolis while chapter four considers the implications of
residential mobility on urban management.
Chapter five makes recommendations and proposals on the methodology
of measuring residential change.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEAN, POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF M.Sc (URBAN AND REGIONAL
PLANNING) DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA.
Keywords
RESIDENTIAL,, MOBILITY,, KADUNA,, METROPOLIS,, IMPLICATIONS,, URBAN,, MANAGEMENT.