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Title: | Planners, Officials, and Low Income Women and Children in Nigerian Cities: Divergent Perspectives over Housing and Neighborhoods |
Author: | Oruwari, Yomi |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2-3 |
Pages: | 396-410 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | urban housing urban women urban planning Urbanization and Migration Development and Technology Politics and Government Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) urbanization Cultural Roles Women and Their Children |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107244 |
Abstract: | In Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and many other African cities, poor women are burdened not only by economic and social demands, but also by a built environment that in many ways works against their interests. Many of the housing problems women are facing today were established during the colonial era, when Western modes of architecture and urban planning were introduced, but those modes have often been perpetuated after independence. This article surveys some of the basic patterns in the built environment of Port Harcourt and looks at the divergent and often conflicting perspectives on housing and urban space of planners and officials, on the one hand, and women and children on the other. It gives an overview of precolonial, colonial and contemporary housing and neighbourhood patterns, and discusses land laws and other legal issues affecting housing and urban design. It further analyses impediments to the provision of low-income housing in Nigeria and concludes with some proposals for change, beginning with building codes. Bibliogr., sum. in French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |