Relationship Between Residential Land Use And Incidence of Casual Economic Ventures In Metropolitan Lagos

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2021 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 8 Issue 2

Year of Publication : 2021

Authors : Ademola Farinmade, Leke Oduwaye, Ola Aluko

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V8I2P103

How to Cite?

Ademola Farinmade, Leke Oduwaye, Ola Aluko, "Relationship Between Residential Land Use And Incidence of Casual Economic Ventures In Metropolitan Lagos," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 8,  no. 2, pp. 12-18, 2021. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V8I2P103

Abstract:

The casual economic venture has not only persisted but grown in residential areas of Lagos metropolis. This paper examines the irelationship between the venture and residential land use in the residential neighborhoods of Lagos metropolis. The research adopts survey research design. Data were obtained through personal observation and administration of structured and semi-structured questionnaires. Sampling was done using multi-stage sampling and disproportionate sampling techniques. One thousand, three hundred and forty-five questionnaires were administered on casual economic venture entrepreneurs in fifty-two administrative wards across the sixteen local government areas that made up the Lagos metropolis. Nine hundred ad seventy-three making up 73.9% of administered questionnaires were retrieved and found adequate and acceptable for analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools for the interpretations and discussions of results. The study proved that statistical positive relationships exist between the incidence of informal commercial activities and the residential land use effects: aesthetical disorder; encroachment on circulation land use; visual obstruction; indiscriminate disposal of waste; and land use conversion which implies that there is a significant inter-group variation in the effects; they graduate with the increase in densities. The paper concludes with recommendation for absorption of casual economic ventures in residential areas of urban environment in such a way that will minimize its adverse environmental consequences.

Keywords:

Residential land use, Casual Economic Ventures, Relationship, Metropolitan Lagos

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