The renewal of deteriorating urban centre: A case study of Sagamu core area
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Date
1984
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Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria
Abstract
and socio-cultural characteristics, facilities and services available in arriving at the means of
reactivating the area.
The techniques employed in the collection of socio-economic and physical data include the direct
observation of the present situation, Questionnaire and interviews with the people to assess the
land use pattern, age and conditions of buildings environmental sanitation and the traffic
conditions. Efforts were also made to find out the opinions of the people about the environmental
conditions of their area.
The survey analyses showed that factors responsible for the continuous deterioration of the study
area include inadequate community facilities and services such as public faucets, refuse
collection centres, fire hydrants, parking spaces; conflicting land uses: poor maintenance of
buildings; poor and narrow roads badly designed and excessively narrow road junctions, and
unhygienic environmental conditions due to indiscriminate disposal of refuse.
Consequently, proposals were made for the future improvements of the area under study based
on the survey findings by recommending the rehabilitation of dilapidated dwellings and
infrastructures and providing new services where such are inadequate or absent.
Finally, it has been proposed that there should be administrative, financial and legal tools for the
implementation of the proposed plan.
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Culture, Civilization, Environmental sanitation, Land use, Traffic congestion, Infrastructure facility, Refuse dump