Essays about: "makoko"

Found 2 essays containing the word makoko.

1. 1. An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Jate Bleeker; [2016]
   Keywords : urbanism; urban design; architecture; appropriation; lived space; informality; designer; chaos; order; ideal; reality; urbanity; emotional estrangement; flaneur; top-down; bottom-up; capitalism; modernism; Makoko; Lagos; Nigeria; Rinkeby; Stockholm; Sweden; corner stores; temporality; self-built; small-scale;

   Abstract : A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality. . READ MORE

3. 2. Urban Slum Upgrading and Participatory Governance (PG): An investigation into the role of slum community-based institutions in tackling the challenges of slums in developing nations the case of Lagos state, Nigeria

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : PAUL EHIGIATOR; [2013]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This study looks at the role of slum upgrading, political culture, power structure and how these factors affect participation in slum upgrading in Makoko, Lagos. It also investigates how community-based institutions participate in identification of slum challenges, design action plans on curbing the challenges, implementation and monitoring of the plans in Lagos state. READ MORE