Management of Sustainable Cities in Nigeria: The Imperative of Urban Governance

Authors

  • David Victor Ogunkan

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Abstract

The 21st century is a century of cit ies Over half of the world s population now lives in cities and by 2050 this figure may rise to 70 percent globally UN-HABITAT 2010 The unprecedented pace of urbanization has had a profound impact on the number and size of cities and has created a phenomenon called megacities UN-HABITAT 2007 This ongoing transformation to a global urban society offers an unprecedented opportunity to use the urbanization process as a catalyst for sustainable economic and social development since urbanization is a precondition for social and economic development SDSN 2013 State of World Population 2009 shows that the more developed countries are all highly urbanized the least developed countries are all low on urbanization However the urbanization process in most cities of less developed countries heightens such conditions as lack of resources poverty inequality the pervasiveness of slums and insanitation overcrowding housing congestion crime and violence and several other demeaning situations Omisore et al 2003 Ogunleye 2005 UNEP 2012 Adeboyejo 2013 Ogunkan and Adeboyejo 2015 This is particularly true of Nigerian cities which today are one of if not the greatest contributors to the urbanization profile of Africa Adeboyejo 2013

How to Cite

David Victor Ogunkan. (2021). Management of Sustainable Cities in Nigeria: The Imperative of Urban Governance. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 21(B2), 47–55. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3732

Management of Sustainable Cities in Nigeria: The Imperative of Urban Governance

Published

2021-03-15