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Title:Environmental Factors in Third World Housing: The Case of Calabar, Nigeria
Author:Sule, R.A. Olu
Year:1986
Periodical:African Urban Quarterly
Volume:1
Issue:3-4
Period:August-November
Pages:196-206
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Efik
environment
dwellings
Bibliography/Research
Urbanization and Migration
Abstract:Policy and programmes in respect of housing modernization in most Third World countries and in Nigeria specifically can be described as grossly inadequate. Houses are built without taking adequate cognizance of the most sensitive elements in the culture. Aside from the physical environment, there are other critical elements such as building materials, the nature of the family system, the spatial housing needs both in physical and functional terms, and living behaviour. The author examines such cultural factors in Third World housing, using the Efiks, in Calabar, southeast Nigeria, as an example. The cultural reasons for the Efiks housing design are the reflections of simple living. The houses provide continued interest and satisfaction to the traditional people who frown on modern glass houses as an environmental mismatch. Ref., sum.
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