Effects of urban land use activities on environment (a case study of uyo metropolis
Table Of Contents
- <p> </p><p><b>Title Page</b></p><p>Cover Page – – – – i</p><p>Dedication – – – – ii</p><p>Acknowledgement – – – – iii</p><p>Abstract – – – – iv</p><p>Table of Contents – – – – v</p><p>List of Tables – – – – viii</p><p><b>CHAPTER<br>ONE: INTRODUCTION</b></p><p>
- 1.1 Background of Study – – – 1 </p><p>
- 1.2 Statement<br>of Problems – – – 2</p><p>
- 1.3 Aim<br>and Objectives of the Study – – 3</p><p>
- 1.4 Research<br>Question – – – 3</p><p>
- 1.5 Significance<br>of Study – – – 4 </p><p>
- 1.6 Scope<br>and Limitation – – – 4</p><p>
- 1.7 Study Area – – – 4</p><p><b>CHAPTER<br>TWO: INTRODUCTION</b></p><p>
- 2.1 Urban Land Use- – – – 7</p><p>2.
- 1.1 Urban<br>Land use in Nigeria – – – 8</p><p>2.
- 2.2 Measurement<br>and Classification of Urban Land Use – 9</p><p>2.
- 2.3 Urban<br>Structure – – – 9</p><p>2.
- 2.4 Structural<br>Component and Types of Urban Pattern – 9</p><p>
- 2.3 Nature<br>of Urban Areas – – – 10</p><p>2.
- 3.1 The<br>Concentric Zone Theory – – – 11</p><p>2.
- 3.2 Radial<br>Sector Theory – – – 12</p><p>2.
- 3.3 Radial<br>Sector Concept – – – 13</p><p>2.
- 3.4 Multiple<br>Nuclei Theory – – – 13</p><p>2.
- 3.5 Multiple<br>Nuclei Theory – – – 14</p><p>
- 2.4 The<br>Urban Land Use of Uyo Metropolis – – 17 </p><p>2.
- 4.1 Residential<br>Land use – – – 17</p><p>2.
- 4.2 Industrial<br>Land Use – – – 17</p><p>2.
- 4.3 Recreational<br>Land use – – – 18</p><p>2.
- 4.3 Commercial<br>Land Use – – – 19</p><p>2.
- 4.4 Educational<br>Facilities (Institutional Land Use) – 21</p><p>2.
- 4.5 Environment<br>Management – – – 23</p><p>
- 2.5 Summary – – – – 26</p><p><b>CHAPTER<br>THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY</b></p><p>
- 3.1 Introduction – – – – 27</p><p>
- 3.2 Research Design – – – 27</p><p>
- 3.3 Population and Sample – – – 27</p><p>
- 3.4 Instrument<br>for Data Collection – – 28</p><p>
- 3.5 Method<br>of Data Analysis – – – 28</p><p><b>CHAPTER<br>FOUR: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS</b></p><p>
- 4.1 Data Analysis – – – – 29</p><p><b>CHAPTER<br>FIVE: DISCUSSION SUMMARY, CONCLUSION</b></p><p><b> AND RECOMMENDATION</b></p><p>
- 5.1 Discussion – – – – 32</p><p>
- 5.2 Summary – – – – 33</p><p>
- 5.3 Conclusion – – – – 34</p><p>
- 5.4 Recommendation – – – 34</p><p><b>References</b></p><p><b>LIST OF TABLES</b></p><p><b>Table Title Page</b></p><p><b>TABLE<br>1:</b><br> Personal Characteristics – – – 29</p><p><b>TABLE<br>2:</b><br> Status Holding of Property – – – 30</p><p><b>TABLE<br>4:</b><br> Land Use type in Uyo Urban – – – 30</p><p><b>TABLE<br>5:</b><br> Land Use Types and Environmental<br>Problem – 31</p> <br><p></p>
Project Abstract
<p> Land use<br>activities in Uyo metropolis have been observed to have effects on the<br>environment in which we live and carry out our business. The aim of the study<br>is to enumerate the physical problems arising from the land use pattern in the<br>study area, to find out the effect of dumpsite on the occupant residential<br>properties, to investigate the effect of petroleum filling station on the<br>residential property value and to verify the effect of traffic congestion on<br>the infrastructure services. The research designs were survey method and<br>questionnaires which were distributed. The population of the study is 350.<br>Business owners 150, Resident 200. Sample drawn from the project is the<br>simple techniques and systematic random techniques where vehicle loading point,<br>filling station, dump site are counted after every 500m. The status head analysis<br>adopted is percentages, regression analysis. The finding of the study shows<br>there are different environmental hazard in Uyo metropolis. The conclusion<br>shows that the commercial land use possess more environmental problems than any<br>other land use. Dump site affect resident, filling station affects commercial<br>land use, vehicle loading point affect traffic; Recommendation for this project<br>is policies need to be made with strict rules to reduce the problem in the<br>environment. <br></p>
Project Overview
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</p><p> Land<br>use is the use of land for a single or multiple purpose aimed at achieving a<br>desired result. Land is the center of all activities on earth. The post and<br>primary thing people ever used to meet their need was solely on land (Mbadiwe<br>2004). That is why we build on land, farm on it, feed and also move on land.</p><p> An urban area implies an area with diverse<br>and spatially dispersed land uses. These land uses attracts and generate<br>movements to and away from them. Consequently, the more land uses and urban<br>area has, the more diversified or greater the socio-economic activities,<br>mobility conflicts and vis-à-vis congestion. These movements will be constrained<br>if the location of the land uses is not planned. Urban area requires adequate<br>planning and control in order to ensure harmonious development and functional<br>efficacy of uses.</p><p> To ensure adequate planning and orderly<br>development of urban facilities and services there must be development control<br>mechanism. As population in the urban areas increases, urban planning become<br>more critical and the pressure and the pressure on the facilities is high.<br>According to Oyesiku (1997) the forms and patterns of distribution of structure<br>in general to promote the good health, accessibility, convenience and harmonious<br>land use in environment area functions of a considerable extent of the right<br>and methods of dealing with land. Due to rapid urban growth and mixed land uses<br>in Uyo urban, there is an increase in land use problems such as blighted<br>structures, rising from the costs of land, flooding, overcrowding and<br>congestion, etc.</p><p>Urban land use structures account<br>for land use changes and the activities are more frequently analyzed to<br>include, residential, commercial, industrial, transportation and to a lesser<br>extent public and other services. Within the broader realm of oriented studies<br>of land use, two particular approaches have been developed. They are the behavioral<br>and the institutional. The behavioral attempted to describe and explain land<br>use pattern as a function of factors, influencing human behavior and decision<br>making to causing on human activity system (Chaplin and Kaiser 1990).</p><p> In<br>Uyo urban, there seems to be agglomeration of most of the land uses such that<br>there is a clustering of space. Similarly, the allocation of space to most of<br>the land uses types usually does not take into consideration the effect cause<br>on the other land uses. These effect are overcrowding, traffic congestion,<br>flooding, pollution etc.</p><p> <br>Another urban land use problems in Uyo is the uncoordinated locations of<br>functionally related land uses, examples are the location of filling stations<br>near commercial and residential buildings such as Total, Mobil, Keybros filling<br>station along Ikot ekpene road, Winmos, Nossien, NNPC filling stations along<br>Oron road etc. The low level of awareness an enlightenment on the provision of<br>Uyo Mater Plan (1988) for Uyo capital led to the development of urban land uses<br>contrary to the set goals. Property developers see the existing Uyo master plan<br>and its provisions as a restrictive imposition on the development drive of the<br>people.</p><p>The<br>research work is aimed at examining the land use in Uyo metropolis in order to<br>pin-point the problems inherent in the area that are associated with urban land<br>use control and to determine whether there is any significant relationship to<br>the people perception of planning and attitude towards land use control with<br>the specific objectives as;</p><p> <br>i. <br>To enumerate the physical<br>problems/conflict arising from land use pattern in the study area.</p>
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