Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria (eBook)

Abubakar Danladi Isah is a professor at the Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology in Minna, Nigeria, where he teaches courses on architectural design, building climatology, architectural graphics, and geometry.

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Foreword.- Chapter 1.- 1.1 General idea about the book.- 1.2 Purpose and coverage of the research.- 1.3 Civilization and the indigenous culture demands in space uses.- 1.4 Public housing concept in Nigeria, conflict in user and providers’ views.- 1.4.1 Cultural context of northern part of Nigeria.- 1.4.2 Seeking to regulate indiscriminate housing transformation.- 1.4.3 Culture content desired by public housing users in design.- Building evidence based design in public housing transformation.- Post-occupancy assessment of public housing neighbourhood.- 1.5 Summary.- References.- Chapter 2: The dimension of public housing in Nigeria.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Optimising user activity-space relations through control levels.- 2.3 Historical outlook of the environmental setting of northern region of Nigeria.- 2.4 Impact of Language Distribution in Nigerian regional relations.- 2.5 Public housing situation in Nigeria.- 2.6 Urban migrants and housing impulse in Nigeria.- 2.7 Persistent dissatisfaction of public housing residents with provisions.- 2.8 Summary.- Reference.- Chapter 3: Culture and Space as an integral phenomenon of housing transformation.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Culture and co-creation of human spaces.- 3.3 Spatial morphological tendencies in public housings.-3.4 Adaptation of culture in urban building configuration.- 3.5 Housing transformation in culture sensitive societies.- 3.6 Outline of transformation threshold essentials.- 3.6.1 Sustainable housing transformation and sustainable technologies.- 3.6.2 Transformation as a cultural desire of habitation.- 3.6.3 Shortfall of transformation coverage by building regulations.- 3.7 Public housing transformation.- 3.8 Reflecting culture and housing theories in housing transformation.-       3.8.1 Etic and Emic theory of cross-cultural research.- 3.8.2 Man-Environment Relation (MER) design theory.- 3.8.3 Explanatory Theory of Environment-Behaviour Relation (EBR).- 3.8.4 User Centred Theory (UCT).- 3.8.5 Evidence Based Design (EBD).- 3.9 Summary.- Reference.- Chapter 4: Search for cultural attributes appropriate for design ideals.- 4.1 Connecting with users’ experience.- 4.2 Characterising users’ perception.- 4.3 Ethnography: the search for cultural determinants and patterns.- 4.3.1 Hausa ethnic group.- 4.3.2 Fulani ethnic group.- 4.3.3 Kanuri ethnic group.- 4.3.4 Nupe ethnic group.- 4.3.5 Tiv ethnic group.-4.3.6 Gbagyi ethnic group.- 4.4 Life at the root, identifying the core space use values.- 4.5 Sustainable indigenous socio-cultural attributes.- 4.5.1 Accessibility.- .- 4.5.3 Outdoor relaxation.- 4.5.4 Household distribution.- 4.5.5 Social events and domestic chores.- 4.5.6 Cooking.- 4.6 Dwelling Layout Patterns.- 4.7 Spatial indigeneity at the root space use.- 4.8 Summary.- References.- Chapter 5: Search for Public housing inhabitants’ link with the root.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Public housing survey.- 5.2.1 Derivation of measurement concept.- 5.3 Core socio-demographic attributes.- 5.3.1 Family Structure.-5.3.2 Residency Duration.- 5.3.3 Age of Household Head.- 5.3.4 Frequency in Transformation Occurrence.- 5.3.5 Occupants Residency Cycle.- 5.3.6 Occupancy Cycle in relation to the Types of Changes made.- 5.4 Determining the link with the root through psychometric process.-            5.4.1 Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) .- 5.4.1.1 EFA of Socio-Cultural Factors.- 5.4.1.2 EFA of Socio-Economic Factors.- 5.4.1.3 EFA of Socio-Physical Environmental Factors.- 5.4.2 CFA and Second-Order SEM for the hypothesised composites.- 5.4.2.1 SEM of Tangible Socio-Cultural Factors.- 5.4.2.2 SEM of Intangible Socio-Cultural Factors.- 5.4.2.3 SEM of Socio-Economic Factors.- 5.4.2.4 SEM of Socio-Physical Factors.-5.5 Conclusion.- Reference.- Chapter 6: Search for design patterns and design indices in transformed housing units.-6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Transformed layout configurations.- 6.3 Effect of built environment control levels.- 6.4 Basic transformation types among inhabitants.- 6.5 Architectural patterns of transformation.- 6.5.1 Conversion of spaces for other functions.- 6.5.2 Extension of Spaces.- 6.5.3 Addition of Spaces.- 6.5.4 Re-configuration of Spaces.- 6.6 Conclusion.- References.- Chapter 7: Cultural determinants and spatial patterns of design framework units.-7.1 Introduction: recapitulating the research stance.- 7.2 Establishing the implicit findings.-7.3 Searching for the implicit meaning.- 7.3.1 Inferences on cultural determinants in the formation of design guidelines.-7.3.2 Inferences on spatial pattern in the formation of design guideline.- 7.4 The implicit domains.-7.4.1 Functionality Character.- 7.4.2 Ordering of Spaces.- 7.4.3 Territorial Control.- 7.4.4 Transformation Practice.- 7.4.5 Social System.- 7.4.6 Spatial Patterns.- 7.4.7 Space Formation.- 7.5 Re-adaptation of cultural attributes; public housing design framework.- 7.5.1 Culture Responsive Design.- 7.5.2 Emerging Urban Architectural Character.- 7.6 Conclusion.- Chapter 8: Rethinking sustainable public housing design in cultured communities.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Inhabitants’ adaptation with the transformed pattern replicating the root.- 8.3 Indigenous participation in sustainable public housing planning.- 8.4 Rethinking public housing design concept.- 8.4.1 Ideals for Policy and Design Implications.- 8.5 Conclusion.- Appendix.- Glossary.- Summary.