Lagos
Margaret Peil(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 15. April 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-471-94743-1 (ISBN)
Description
Lagos is Nigeria's largest city, and as such something of a microcosm of Africa's largest state. This work outlines its historical evolution, its population, its economy, its transport and government, the problems that face its planners and the dilemmas of development that confront its future.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
photographs, maps, further reading lists, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
475 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94743-1 (9780471947431)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Early Lagosians - founders, colonial officials and local elites, urban growth and structure; locals and strangers - Yoruba, other Nigerians, non-Nigerians; politicians - national politicians, indigenes and strangers (Lagos State), local government, public political action (case studies); workers and entrepreneurs - industrialists and financialists, wage workers and trade unionists, the self-employed, the unemployed; families and basic needs - households, cost of living, education, health and welfare; rich and poor - clerics and followers, social activities, elites, anarchy and control; urbanites and suburbanites - architects and builders, landowners, private landlords/landladies, housing conditions, government as landlord; planners - LEDB and its successors; transporters, service providers; conclusion - whose city? - looking back, looking forward.