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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. |