Correlates of Peri-Urban Architecture in Ibadan, Nigeria

Abstract

Peri-urban architecture refers to the architecture that has both urban and rural characteristics. In Nigeria, housing is daily becoming a mirage for the generality of the people in the urban areas, while the peri-urban area is developing rapidly. This paper therefore, assesses the correlates of Peri-urban architecture in Ibadan, Southwest, Nigeria. A total of 2,646 Questionnaires were administered to house owners through multi-stage sampling technique which was complemented with field observation. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were employed in the presentation of the findings; Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to analyse the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of house owners measured by gender (X,), religion (X,), educational background (X,) and employment status (X,), while peri-urban architecture was depicted by wall materials characterised by sandcrete block (Y,), mud (Y,) and brick (Y,). Most of the respondents (51.7%) practiced Christianity, while 65.7% were male. Also, 35.0% had HND/1°/ Postgraduate degree and 10.4% were self-employed. The significant house types in the area were flat bungalow (38.9%) and Brazilian bungalow (37.9%); 40.6% houses were uncompleted and inhabited. MANOVA shows a significant relationship between sandcrete block and educational background (X,) with p=0.0000 Thus, educational background of respondents determined the utilisation of sandcrete block as walling material; house owners that used sandcrete block had HND/1°/ Postgraduate degree. Also, employment status played significant roles in the choice of mud material with p=0.0000 and respondents that were unemployed stay in mud houses more than any other socio-economic groups. The study suggests that, government should subsidize cost of building materials as well as encourage the use of alternative building materials so as to ease housing problems.

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