The perception of housing conditions in Nigeria by the urban poor

Awotona, Adenrele

doi:10.1016/0197-3975(88)90028-8

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“…It arguably enhances the maximization of 'goodness of t' between the residents' needs and the actual conditions of their dwellings and environmental services. Several scholars have called for either the combining of the normative and satisfaction criteria, or a prominent recognition of the latter in the formulation of housing environment policies (Rent & Rent, 1978;Awotona, 1988;Kaitilla, 1993;Pacione, 1993).…”

Section: Perspectives On Residential Satisfaction Technique and Assesmentioning

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Urban Residential Satisfaction and the Planning Implications in a Developing World Context: The Example of Benin City, Nigeria

Ogu¹

2002

International Planning Studies

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As urban expansion continues into the 21st century, one of the daunting challenges facing many developing countries is the planning and the management of cities in such a way as to meet a planning reformist role of promoting equitable, ef cient and sustainable urban settlements. In the face of mounting criticisms of technocratic top-down approaches to housing and infrastructure development, there is a need for studies on the interface of satisfaction assessments and planning on the one hand and the social and cultural implications for urban management on the other. This is particularly so in the context of developing cities that are often characterized by dwindling public nances, urban poverty, spatial variations in housing and services, and poor socioeconomic conditions, as well as top-down approaches to urban management. A systematic spatial assessment of urban satisfaction is presented using Benin, a traditional West African city, as a case study. The signi cance of the satisfaction approach for planning, social and equity concerns is identi ed, and it is argued that we should look beyond it and incorporate community participatory approaches in the urban development process.

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Section: Perspectives On Residential Satisfaction Technique and Assesmentioning

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Urban Residential Satisfaction and the Planning Implications in a Developing World Context: The Example of Benin City, Nigeria

Ogu¹

2002

International Planning Studies

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“…Okpala (1987) blames the administrators of land delivery programmes for perpetuating concepts and standards received from the colonial era, although these are increasingly inappropriate to the situation to which they are being applied. Awotona (1988) points out that official housing standards adopted in African cities are largely elitist, unrelated to social and economic realities, imitative of European or North American standards, indifferent to local experience and irrelevant to local culture. They also lack reference to the local economy and are virtually impossible to enforce.…”

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The regulatory framework, unplanned development and urban poverty: Findings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kironde¹

2006

Land Use Policy

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“…Besides flat size and layout, many other factors such as the outdoor environment [4], nearness to infrastructures and facilities [5] and internal housing features like location of living room [6] affect the living quality of habitants. The multifaceted environmental performance of a building, in respect to the quality of the indoor thermal, visual and aural environments and indoor air quality, also impacts the health of occupants and their satisfaction with the habitats [7].…”

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Perception of importance and performance of the indoor environmental quality of high-rise residential buildings

Lai

Yik

2009

Building and Environment

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The quality of buildings, including their performance in a range of indoor environmental attributes, is influential to the living quality of habitants. Many studies on appropriate importance weights for the attributes have been reported but few embraced both human perception of the importance of such attributes and the related performance of buildings.Focusing on typical public and private high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong, users' perceived importance of four key attributes, namely thermal comfort, air cleanliness, odour and noise, and their perceived performance of the buildings in these attributes were studied.Perceptions collected from 563 respondents were processed through an analytical hierarchy process to generate importance weights for the attributes. Correlation analyses corroborate that perceived importance may vary among buildings of different types and between residents and visitors. Thermal comfort was perceived by the vast majority as the most important.Using a performance-importance plot, it is shown how the gaps between perceived performance and perceived importance can be identified. The results can help determine the areas for improvement in new building designs and facilitate prioritization of limited resources for upgrading building performance.

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The perception of housing conditions in Nigeria by the urban poor

Cited by 11 publications

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Urban Residential Satisfaction and the Planning Implications in a Developing World Context: The Example of Benin City, Nigeria

Urban Residential Satisfaction and the Planning Implications in a Developing World Context: The Example of Benin City, Nigeria

The regulatory framework, unplanned development and urban poverty: Findings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Perception of importance and performance of the indoor environmental quality of high-rise residential buildings

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