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Title:Accessibility Distribution Aspects of Public Urban Land Management: A Nigerian Case
Author:Okpala, Donatus C.I.
Year:1979
Periodical:African Urban Studies
Issue:5
Period:Fall
Pages:25-44
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:nationalization
land law
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Urbanization and Migration
Politics and Government
Abstract:The Conference on Land Policy, organized by the Physical Planning Division of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, 1976, recommended that the government take over all land and allocate it according to its perceived priorities. Most recently, on a television discussion program, the government strongly urged to 'take over and nationalize all land'. However, on the same program the government was urged to 'differentiate between land tenure and land-use problems', with the argument that nationalization of land would only worsen the problem of land in the country, as the housing situation was likely to be aggravated because private citizens build more houses than the government, in the ratio of 100: 1 at least. The author of this paper contends that this potential is not necessarily realized because land is publicly owned or managed. This is illustrated by an examination of one case of public management of urban land (the Lagos Executive Development Board). Ref., notes, tab., app.
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