HOUSING PROBLEM IN UNIVERSITY TOWN:
A CASE STUDY OF EKPOMA
BY
NAME SURNAME
MAT NO: FES/GRP/--/-----
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
FACULTY
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY
EKPOMA-EDO STATE
NIGERIA
DECEMBER, 2010.
HOUSING PROBLEM IN UNIVERSITY TOWN:
A CASE STUDY OF EKPOMA
BY
NAME SURNAME
MAT NO: FES/GRP/--/-----
A
PROJECT WORK SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(BSC DEGREE) IN GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
NAME
OF UNIVERSITY
PLACE
- STATE
NIGERIA
DECEMBER,
2010.
CERTIFICATION
This is to certify that this project is
carried out by NAME SURNAME in the Department of Geography and Regional
Planning Faculty of social sciences Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma Edo State.
…………………………….. …………………
Prof NAME Date
Project Supervisor
……………………….. ……………….
Prof NAME Date
Head of Department
…………………………
External Examiner
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Date
DEDICATION
This project is dedicated to Almighty
God who is the maker and giver of life. And to my earthly parents Mr. and NAME, I pray that God should strengthen their life.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I wish to thank unchangeable creator God
Almighty for his blessings and infinite mercies, for protecting me and creating
environment for me to write this project.
My gratitude goes to my parents, who
make it possible for me throughout my education.
With sincere heart I am grateful to my
supervisor NAME for his fatherly role and despite his tight
office schedule had the time to listen to me, correct this essay and make
valuable suggestion, without his efforts this essay would not have been a
reality.
My thanks goes to those people who
supported me and directed me on how to write this essay, NAME, NAME, I pray to
God, to grant you more strength to endure in life.
I am also indebted to my beloved
brothers and sisters, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME
and NAME.
My sincere appreciation goes to my
friends which are, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME, NAME.
My gratitude also goes to my beloved man
of God, Pastor NAME and to all member of NAME. God
Bless you all.
I want to acknowledge my lecturers
especially Prof NAME, Dr. NAME, Dr. NAME, Prof NAME Prof. NAME, and so many others for helping me to brighten my academic
horizon.
I am grateful to my course mates and
indeed other students of the department of geography and regional planning.
I pray to God to strengthening you all,
in all your endeavours.
ABSTRACT
This
research is concern with housing problems in the university town of a case
study of Ekpoma in which housing is one of man basic necessity are social
warfare as well as its attributed problems are to be evaluated.
The
research will entail the examination of scope, significance and objectives of
study, adoption of statistical analysis in testing hypothesis. And in-depth
knowledge will be required to enable one know the background of housing
problems, in addition to the housing problems affecting the residents of
Ekpoma. I will also analyze the implication of the housing problems on the
location choice of housing and what way it will help in decision making
individual residential areas. At the end of the research work, conclusions will
be found and recommendations will be found and recommendations will be
prescribed on how to ameliorate the housing problems in the study areas. A few
researchers have worked on the related areas but could not relatively bring to
the bear the near solution to i.e. thus the problems that.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title
page i
Certification iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgement v
Abstract vii
Table
of contents ix
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Statement
of problems 2
1.3 Objective
of study 4
1.4 Research
hypothesis 5
1.5 Research
methodology 6
1.5.1 Data
required and their source 7
1.5.2 Methods
of Data collection 7
1.5.3 Problems
of data collection 9
1.5.4 Methods
of data analysis 9
1.6 The study area 10
1.6.1 General
characteristics 11
1.6.2 Soil 11
1.6.3 Vegetation 12
1.6.4 Political
background 13
1.6.5 Climate 14
1.6.6 Physical
landscape 15
CHAPTE TWO
CONCEPTUAL
FRAMEWORK AND LITERAUTRE REVIEW
2.1 Conceptual
framework 19
2.2 Literature
review 26
2.3 Summary
and the research gab 39
CHAPTER THREE
FACTOR OF
LOCATION, DISTRIBUTION AND HOUSING PROBLEM IN EKPOMA
3.1 Introduction 40
3.2 Location
factor of Residential Areas in Ekpoma40
3.2.1 Income 41
3.2.2 Availability
of housing facilities 42
3.2.3 Accessibility 44
3.2.4 Dimension
factors 45
3.2.5 Commercial
activities 46
3.3 Housing problems in Ekpoma 47
3.3.1 Infrastructure 50
3.4 Housing distribution in Ekpoma 52
CHAPTER FOUR
THE IMPLICATION OF HOUSING
PROBLEMS ON LOCATION CHOICE OF HOUSING AND HOUSING TYPES IN NIGERIA
4.1 Introduction 56
4.2 Housing
types in Study area 57
4.2.1 The
Traditional housing type 57
4.2.2 Modern
Housing Types 58
4.2.3 Mixed
Economy types 59
4.3 Housing quality 67
4.4 Housing Quality and rent 70
4.5 Distance and Rents 73
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary 78
5.2 Conclusion 79
5.3 Recommendation 80
Bibliography
85
Questionnaire 89
Appendix 97
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