URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMME FOR IMPROVING BLIGHTED AREAS A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED PARTS OF KADUNA METROPOLIS

📄 Project Abstract

urban renewal programme is an intervention package to solve problems confrontinf blighted parts of Urban Centres. The problems are physical, environmental, socio-cultural and adminsitrative in nature. The problems of blight include inadequate and low maintenance level of infra-structural facilities, inadequate planning and implementation of development projects and lack of well-defined approaches to renewal programmes toward blightedness. This adversely threatens the environment which undergoes the decay process. Blightedness is intensified at the. periphery where haphazard development and pressure in exacted on the utilities and services. Owing to population growth largely accounted for by the influx of migrants to the cities. The study addresses itself to the types and nature of blight in Kaduna metropolis, with a view to evolving the most appropriate Urban renewal programme. The study is able to achieve this through measuring blightedness using the method of rough screening, weight ...