The shift in the architecture of the Nigerian cities: the case of rural to urban migration and the consequences in the Built Environment

Abstract

Nigeria has in existence, adverse economic inequality and injustice within the cities and they are affecting the areas built environment and resulting in urbanization. Nigerian urbanization is growing more than the country’s urban development vis-à-vis housing and economic resources, hence 'spatial dialectics'. Within every Nigeria’s city space is the spatial housing characterized by informal volumetric and unvolumetric combination now called the 'spatial house', 'open house' or 'house without limit. Almost all the Nigerian city’s Master Plan was poorly implemented and that resulted in urban development embarrassments. This paper investigated and documented the problems associated with inappropriate implementation of the communities Master Plans and  adopted content base analysis that emphasized the opinions of others. It is common in most Nigerian planning and regulatory office to see nonprofessional used in implementing the Master Plan and it is the recommendation of this paper to disallow that. The poor implementation of the cities Master Plans, led to dismal miscommunication problems and economic divide within the cities and the cities lacked integrity, inclusion of all and shared prosperity. They lacked inclusive economic growth incentives and not sustainable.