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Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa

  • Timothy Gbenga Nubi
  • Isobel Anderson
  • Taibat Lawanson
  • Basirat Oyalowo
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Part of the Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements book series (ACHS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xix
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  2. Africa’s Housing Sector as a Pathway to Achieving the SDGs
    Timothy Nubi, Isobel Anderson
    Pages 1-12
  3. Global Goal, Local Context: Pathways to Sustainable Urban Development in Lagos, Nigeria
    Taibat Lawanson, Basirat Oyalowo, Timothy Nubi
    Pages 13-35
  4. The Road not Taken: Policy and Politics of Housing Management in Africa
    Abiodun Anthony Olowoyeye
    Pages 37-54
  5. Learning from Experience: An Exposition of Singapore’s Home Ownership Scheme and Imperatives for Nigeria
    Hikmot A. Koleoso, Basirat Oyalowo
    Pages 55-69
  6. Housing and Possible Health Implications in Upgraded Informal Settlements: Evidence from Mangaung Township, South Africa
    John Ntema, Isobel Anderson, Lochner Marais
    Pages 71-85
  7. Housing, Health and Well-Being of Slum Dwellers in Nigeria: Case Studies of Six Cities
    Johnson Bade Falade
    Pages 87-123
  8. Adverse Impact of Human Activities on Aquatic Ecosystems: Investigating the Environmental Sustainability Perception of Stakeholders in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria
    Temitope Olawunmi Sogbanmu, Opeyemi Anne Ogunkoya, Esther Iyanuoluwa Olaniran, Adedoyin Kehinde Lasisi, Thomas-Benjamin Seiler
    Pages 125-145
  9. Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: Considerations for Household and Indoor Air Pollution in Nigeria and Ghana
    Irene Appeaning Addo, Oluwafemi Ayodeji Olajide
    Pages 147-164
  10. A Study of Housing, Good Health and Well-Being in Kampala, Uganda
    Emmanuel Musoke Mutyaba
    Pages 165-175
  11. Relocation and Informal Settlements Upgrading in South Africa: The Case Study of Mangaung Township, Free State Province
    John Ntema
    Pages 177-192
  12. Green Bonds and Green Buildings: New Options for Achieving Sustainable Development in Nigeria
    Oluwaseun James Oguntuase, Abimbola Windapo
    Pages 193-218
  13. Homeownership in a Sub-Saharan Africa City: Exploring Self-help via Qualitative Insight to Achieve Sustainable Housing
    Andrew Ebekozien
    Pages 219-235
  14. Exchange Rate and Housing Deficit Trends in Nigeria: Descriptive and Inferential Analyses
    John Ogbonnaya Agwu
    Pages 237-256
  15. Analysing Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital in the Nigerian Poverty Equation
    Akeem Ayofe Akinwale
    Pages 257-272
  16. Beyond a Mere Living Space: Meaning and Morality in Traditional Yoruba Architecture Before Colonialism
    Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
    Pages 273-285
  17. Urban Sprawl and Housing: A Case for Densification in Nigerian Cities
    Saidat Damola Olanrewaju, Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun
    Pages 287-299
  18. Environmental Planning in Mass Housing Schemes: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Safe Urban Communities
    Foluke O. Jegede, Eziyi O. Ibem, Adedapo A. Oluwatayo
    Pages 301-320
  19. Housing and the SDGs in African Cities: Towards a Sustainable Future
    Basirat Oyalowo, Taibat Lawanson
    Pages 321-332
  20. Back Matter
    Pages 333-338
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About this book

Introduction

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.

Keywords

Urban Development Housing Management in Africa Mangaung Township Health and Well Being Aquatic Ecosystems Environmental Sustainability Indoor Air Pollution Green Buildings Yoruba Architecture Urban Sprawl

Editors and affiliations

  • Timothy Gbenga Nubi
    • 1
  • Isobel Anderson
    • 2
  • Taibat Lawanson
    • 3
  • Basirat Oyalowo
    • 4
  1. 1.University of LagosLagosNigeria
  2. 2.Faculty of Social SciencesUniversity of StirlingStirlingUK
  3. 3.University of LagosLagosNigeria
  4. 4.University of LagosLagosNigeria

About the editors

Professor Timothy ‘Gbenga Nubi leads the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos. He was Dean, Faculty of Environmental Science and currently Chairman of the University’s Housing Unit. He was a member of the Technical Board of Nigeria’s Federal Housing Authority (FHA), and member, Board of Trustees of the Real Estate Development Association of Nigeria (REDAN). He has over 60 publications detailing his policy, academic and practice experience.

Professor Isobel Anderson is Chair in Housing Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom. She currently leads the Home, Housing and Community Research Programme and is Chief Examiner for the MSc/Diploma in Housing Studies, while also chairing the University’s Academic Panel for Postgraduate Research Students. She has held more than 40 research awards and has published widely for scholarly as well as practice audiences.

Dr Taibat Lawanson is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she leads the Pro-Poor Development Research Cluster and serves as Co-Director at the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development.  Her research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban realities and the quest for environmental justice. She is particularly interested in how formal and informal urban systems synthesize in emerging African contexts.

Basirat Oyalowo researches in housing and real estate studies, informality and urban sustainability, with an interest in comparative African studies. She is currently a lecturer/researcher at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is on the management team of the University of Lagos Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development. She has won international research grants and is published widely in both policy and scholarly audiences, including the Lagos Resilience Strategy released in 2020.

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