Entegrating the urban interface between town and gown: stimulating the socio-economic edge conditions between the University of Lagos and its host communities for symbiotic benefits
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2022
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Ekeruche, Emanuel
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As the awkward relationships between Greenfield-established universities and their host communities persist in urban campuses, some institutions are now willing to engage their surrounding communities in ways that would be more mutually beneficial than the current exclusion status quo. This research seeks to investigate the University of Lagos, South west Nigeria, and its various surrounding communities using urban design as a social engineering tool to reverse their current conflicting edge conditions into a symbiotic advantageous relationship. This would be geared at refocusing urban movement patterns from the current motorized priority circumstance to adapting the Non-Motorized Transport (N.M.T.) guidelines to redefine neighborhoods into spatial equality communities. Pedestrian priority movement would be established through coding and other urban design tools, theories, and statutory guidelines.
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A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Urban Design to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2021