USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigeria"s future,Architecture, and town planning;

Nigeria, Architecture and town planning : of Diviorcees, poverty
and social behaviour
Most houses in Nigeria you can guess wee not designed by Architects and most of he cities towns and villlages in nigeriai you can guess have not had the attention of town planners. no mastr plan.

american foremost Architect, frank lloyd wright had long affirmed that he could use architecture to stem the divorce rate in usa. we have been of recent having high profile nigerians opting for divorce of rcent not unlike before and they are quite a handful, could these divorces or separations be in any way associated with turbulent architecture.
according to an architect, a v building designed by a quack would not likely "flow"/in the absence of a building flowing you have turbulence and a such likely turbulent family life if a residential property ,,write also raised the issue of architecture and permissive parenting and even productivity at the work place, by the french architect, le corbusier, a house is a machine for living in ,some nigerians are living in badly designed machines and 75 per cent of the houses in lagos for instance need t be demolished according to experts. now an ugly architecture or ugly paln of a town are more likely to lead to ugly attitude and ugly behaviuor, that is known as architectural determinism or environmental determinism, so its in our own interests that cities in nigeria are well planned particularly to eradicate poverty,
the chairman off the royal town planning institute uk, had this on November 7 2013, Guardian uk as follows "Planning has played a transformational role in improving the quality of life of all of our communities and has a critical responsibility to tackle poverty. It has the potential to enhance our wellbeing by giving people access to services, amenities and economic opportunities – and gives communities a say about their future.
However, planning has become increasingly disconnected from peoples' lives because it no longer deals with many of the issues people care about. At the same time, much of the political and media debate about the future of planning has become a discussion of the merits of deregulation." #opportunities #future #people #work #architecture #property #building #wellbeing #planning #productivity

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