PHYSICAL PLANNING PROPOSAL FOR THE CENTRAL AREA OF GOMBE
PHYSICAL PLANNING PROPOSAL FOR THE CENTRAL AREA OF GOMBE
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1999-07
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JAPHET, MUSA
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Abstract
The efficiency of a city's spatial organization is determined by the organization of its central,
area. Today, in most cities of developing countries, a peculiar but more fundamental problem of
central area development that affect majority of the people and the town's growth is lack of
efficiency due to poor locational pattern and functional linkages.
This study explores the possibility of using the trends in the development of the central area
functions in Gombe as a basis for effective planning of the town's central area. The main
emphasis is on improving the pattern of central area development. It first discuses the concept,
growth and approaches to central area planning. This is followed by a detailed study of the
development pattern of the central area functions from 1963 to 1998. The nearest neighbour
analysis give a value of 0.374 for 1963, 1.060 for 1973, 1.080 for 1983 and 1.20 for 1998. The
study found out that the emerging pattern is dispersed. The dispersal is significant at 0.05 level in
1998.
Therefore, a realistic planning approach is recommended to create order in the development of
the central area. As part of the recommendations, the study also came out with design proposal
for one of the proposed sites of the central area of Gombe.
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THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEAN, POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT 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 - NIGERIA
JULY, 1999
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PHYSICAL PLANNING PROPOSAL,, CENTRAL,, AREA,, GOMBE.