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The Nigerian society is undergoing both demographic transition (people are living longer) and epidemiological transition (change in population health due to changes in lifestyle) mainly as a result of urbanization. The country is undergoing rapid urbanization with a rapidly growing population.
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The Nigerian society is rapidly becoming urban as a result...
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INTRODUCTION. Hazardous use of alcohol is a public health...
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Nov 28, 2018 · Urbanization has been defined as the increased concentration of people in cities rather than in rural areas [ 1 ]. Demographic Partitions [ 2] describes urbanization as the “process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas”.
- Temi Oni-Jimoh, Champika Lasanthi Liyanage
- 2018
Jul 29, 2020 · It is not a surprise for urbanization to have enormous negative consequences in Nigeria and other developing countries because of the population increase involved in its pro cess. The index of
- Natural Population Increase in Urban Areas
- Rural to Urban Migration
- Reclassification of Rural Areas as Urban
- Disaggregating Urbanization Into Its Individual Components of Urban Growth
Natural population increase is best understood through the demographic transition model proposed by Thompson (1929). This model is used to depict changes in birth and death rates as a country develops over time. In the first stage of the demographic transition, birth rates and death rates are high and population growth is stagnated; in the second s...
Rural to urban migration has traditionally been understood through the Lewis Dual Sector Model (Lewis 1954) and the Harris-Todaro Model (Harris and Todaro 1970). Both models assert that the decision to migrate is a response to employment opportunities, reflected by rural-urban income gaps. These models distinguish themselves in that the Lewis Dual ...
Reclassification of rural areas as urban, which is generally considered an administrative form of urbanization, is most often used to promote more balanced economic development and to bring infrastructure and amenities to neglected regions (Kulcsar and Brown 2011). Reclassification can occur in a number of ways: the expansion of existing city bound...
Building on the above analysis, the individual contributions of the components of urban growth to the overall urban increment for each decade between 1960 and 2010 have been computed. Given that the preferred data to perform a rigorous analysis does not exist in Nigeria, this paper has opted to apply the “National Growth Rate Method (Siegel and Swa...
- Kyle Farrell, Kyle Farrell
- krfar@kth.se
- 2018
Aug 22, 2023 · Using different scientific literature on global urbanization, urban remote sensing, and economic geography, this study aims to understand the theory behind urban developments in Nigeria.
Jan 1, 2024 · Findings revealed that the current pattern of urbanization in Nigeria is focused on the depopulation of rural areas and the increase in urban population and not the creation of cities...
Feb 23, 2023 · Therefore, the present study examined the various challenges faced due to the tremendous urbanization in Kano city, Nigeria. The study identified the city’s challenges to include infrastructure decay, environmental pollution, problem of urban mobility and traffic congestion, unemployment, and increased crime rates.
