This book focuses on urban development and planning in Nigeria by analyzing the nature and determinants of urban and regional planning strategies and outcomes in Rivers State, Nigeria. The book is organized into fourteen chapters. The first chapter focuses on population growth and the development of the Nigerian urban system. The second chapter traces the roots of Nigerian urban and regional planning system. The third chapter discusses the institutional framework for planning the evolving planning institutions and the emergence of the planning profession in the country and Rivers State. Chapter four examines political and economic forces and the substantive urban planning issues and problems faced by planners in the PH metropolis. Chapter five focuses on PH urban politics, planning administration and institutions. Chapters six and seven focus on the responses of planning to environmental, housing problems, transportation, land use, local economic development, and urban services issues. It documents how urban development and planning policies pertaining to these issues affect urban population groups and how the populations have responded to the outcomes of conventional planning intervention and offers alternative policies. In chapter eight, the problems of plan implementation is examined focusing on the implementation of the Diobu Master Plan, while chapters nine, ten, and eleven present physical planning and development control within the context of local government system in Rivers State. In chapter twelve, the book presents planning for a new town, New Finima, in Rivers State, designed to resettle the Finima. Chapters thirteen and fourteen dwell on the problem of rural urban balance and regional planning in Rivers State and Nigeria in general. It focuses special attention on the problem of urban and rural disparities as the key issue facing regional planning and suggests measures for ensuring that urban planning promotes the welfare of all and enhances the opportunities for the procurement of benefits of development programs by all socioeconomic groups. The book concludes with chapter fifteen on planning imperatives to make the Port Harcourt metropolis livable.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 2.1, Federal University of Technology, Owerri (Environmental science), course: Urban and Regional Planning, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on the challenges and prospects of land registration in Akure South local government area of Ondo state, Nigeria. Many land owners have outdated documents regarding their land, or do not even have documents to show that they are truly the owner of the land that they claim to be theirs. This has caused a lot of problems in time past, where people fight and sometimes go as far as killing themselves over land disputes. Also, on the side of the government it has been difficult for them to keep a comprehensive record of land owners because most of them won’t come to register. Land registration issues are more dominant among private estates because the registration of most government owned estates are done when allocating the land. A multi-stage sampling technique was used, and the stratified random sampling technique was used for the estates selected within Akure south, then the Simple random sampling technique was used to obtain the respondents within the respective estates. From the research carried out, the findings showed that many land owners are aware of the implication of not registering their land, and they wish to register their land but they feel the process of registration is too complicated, stressful and expensive, some don’t even know how to properly get their land registered and they end up getting duped by fraudsters, while a few of them fear that their land might be revoked if they go back to government for registration. The Solutions proposed to thesechallenges is to first create awareness on how to properly get a land registered, and also make land owners know the importance and benefit of registering, creating a stronger data base that would replace the old pen and paper style which is long outdated, introducing the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) which would help to capture and store data of land owners effectively, reduce the time frame used in carrying out the registration process to make it less stressful and discouraging, lastly to subsidize the registration fee for the first set of people who come to register after the awareness is made.

This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice and education in Africa are based. With that, it discusses the potentials of African cities to mobilise local knowledge, resources and capacity building for sustained and resilient urban growth. This work is addressed to educationists and practitioners in the field of urban development management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience. Specifically, such audiences include researchers, spatial planners, graduate students and member of civil societies working on urban development management.