Rural Settlement Patterns and Rural Development in the Yorubaland of Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOsunade, M. A. A.
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-15T14:18:27Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T11:40:10Z
dc.date.available2015-09-15T14:18:27Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T11:40:10Z
dc.date.issued1982
dc.departmentGeographyen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on three aspects of rural settlements: the concept of rurality, rural settlement characteristics and development implications. The conception of rurality by the Yoruba people is sociologically defined and thus inconsistent with demographic definition. A settlement of 40 houses may be called a town (ilu) and another of 80 houses a village (abule) depending on history and the people. The analysis showed that: (a) the curnmulative total of the number of settlements conforms to the S-shaped or sigmoid growth form of biological population; (b) rural settlements do not take the form of a wave diffusion in which areas occupied by earlier settlement lay adjacent to the 'mother' town, and (c) there is no appreciable relationship between topographical factors roads and settlements. The factors of size and spatially dispersed distribution of settlements emphasize the attendant problems of rural development. It is therefore suggested that a reorganisation of settlements for increased threshold population under the Local Government framework is desirable.en_US
dc.facultiesSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.format.filetypePDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationOsunade, M. A. A. (1981) Rural Settlement Patterns and Rural Development in the Yorubaland of Nigeria. Ife Journal of Agriculture, 3(1 & 2).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3584
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages18en_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Agriculture, University of Ifeen_US
dc.subjectRural settlementsen_US
dc.subjectYoruba peopleen_US
dc.subjectFarm settlementsen_US
dc.subjectHuman settlementen_US
dc.subjectCharacteristics of rural settlementsen_US
dc.subjectBuilding in rural settlementsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical organization of rural areasen_US
dc.subjectRural populationen_US
dc.titleRural Settlement Patterns and Rural Development in the Yorubaland of Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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