Abstract
This paper presents a discourse on infrastructural development in housing and urban schemes in Lagos state, Nigeria. It focuses on urban governance, critical statistics, impacts of urban development and planning in decision making. Also, factors affecting housing and urban development processes were discussed. Government policies aids in urban growth were also examined in order to bring a change process for the leading actors. In order to achieve the desired goals in the urban and housing development in Nigeria, especially Lagos, suggestions were outlined to make urban housing industry acceptable for both men and women actors. Keywords : Infrastructures, governance, policy, urban, development, planning DOI : 10.7176/ADS/80-07 Publication date: January 31 st 2020
Highlights
Urban Governance and adequate urban infrastructure among others are two major key indicators of good urban governance in the less developed countries cities
Leadership and management relating to urban infrastructure is essential and critical which must be taken seriously according to Otegbulu (2013).There has been so much investment in infrastructure development in Lagos state which affirms that despite all the investment by the government yet there is a wide gap between public desires and government policy with respect to urban governance (Otegbulu, 2013)
Otegbulu, (2013) further identifies the issue of low infrastructure development to tiers of government which are struggling to cope with the pace of urbanization and there is an ever-increasing demand for infrastructure services leading to lack of urban governance management
Summary
Urban Governance and adequate urban infrastructure among others are two major key indicators of good urban governance in the less developed countries cities. Vivien and Jean-Philippe, (2003); Lyonnareder, (1998) cited in (Otegbulu, 2013) recommends that Lagos state public infrastructure services constitute needed intermediate inputs to economic activities, when such services are not available, private enterprises and households are forced to provide them on their own and most times from informal sources. This could be expensive as the poor pay higher prices for services from informal and nonstandard infrastructural providers. The problem here is that despite of paying more; the quality of services provided may be very poor
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