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Content Type: Resource
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria

This paper appraises housing development and the degeneration of the environment in Nigeria. It highlights that there is monumental deficiency in housing in Nigeria's urban centres as a...

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This research investigates the role of housing in the national economy of Nigeria. The multiple roles of housing in the economy are first investigated from a theoretical perspective and then from...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria

This paper deals with the dynamics and challenges of Nigerian architecture in practice. The focus was on the trend and development of housing forms in Nigerian cities, the forces that have shaped...

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This paper discusses ensuring adequate and sustainable housing delivery towards progressive urbanization in our cities thus constitutes a critical challenge to governance. In examining this...

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Publisher(s): Covenant University
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria

The paper reviews the existing literature on public housing and the role of the state, including an overview of housing research in Nigeria. It describes the context of Lagos, as an emerging mega-...

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This study focuses on impacts and responses to flood risk among the urban poor living in the highly vulnerable informal settlements in the Cape Flats of the City of Cape Town, South Africa and...

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Publisher(s): Macrothink Institute
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria

This paper evaluates the state of internally displaced persons in Nigeria. Paramount objective of the paper anchors on examining the quantum leap and systemic loss of lives and properties in the...

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This paper highlights the combination of use of stabilized earth blocks as an indigenous material for construction and composite building materials in Nigeria, and further stressed that the...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Nigeria

A paper on affordability in building construction through the use of interlocking bricks.

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This paper is purely on the historical account of land and planning laws in Nigeria. As such, the method of investigation is essentially a documentary and analysis of archival records. Based on...

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