Processes associated with urbanisation and urban growth

• Processes:

  1. Economic
  2. Social
  3. Technological
  4. Political
  5. Demographic
• Urban sprawl:


  Spread of urban area into countryside
• Land conversion:


  Land changed to become urban

  > 75% of Lagos is rural
• Promoting domestic industry:


  Increased own factories

  > In the past - 90% of Nigerian electric goods produced overseas but now only 5%
• Under employment


  Rural moving and migrants below skill level
• Slum clearance/ eviction 


  Re-housing slum dwellers

  Battle as more arrive
• Building upwards


  ↓Urban sprawl

  Mitigate to increase land value

  Increase effective space use

  >EkoAtlantic
• Land reclamation 


  >EkoAtlantic land reclaimed from Gulf of Guinea - 3% coastal land used to be underwater
• Overseas investment: 


  Foreign countries investing infrastructure projects funded by foreign companies