THEORETICAL PROCEDURE FOR URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMME: AN AWARENESS CREATION IN NIGERIA

Okechukwu Benjamin Uwadiegwu

Abstract


The aim of the paper is to educate the general public, particularly the improvement area residents, on the theoretically prescribed procedure for the execution of urban renewal. This has became necessary because the executors of urban renewal in Nigeria have tended to implement urban renewal programmes without any identifiable procedure or modality thus making urban renewal programmes in Nigeria appear awesome, controversial and in most cases up-hole tasks. Data used for the write-up were gathered from secondary and primary sources such as interviews, observations, journals, textbooks, legal documents and official reports. The identified procedure ranges from identification of urban renewal area, involvement of citizens, surveys, resettlement plan, revitalization, draft plan, operative plan, relocation, urban renewal plan execution to bringing back the displaced households. It is concluded that urban renewal programme must religiously adopt this sequence and if this is done, urban renewal will become realizable, harmonious, less controversial and hitch-free to the satisfaction of all in Nigeria.

Keywords: Urban renewal, theoretical procedure, redevelopment, rehabilitation, conservation, revitalization.


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