Abstract:
Urban sprawl, or the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading out of built-up areas in Zaria urban area causes problems of congestion, poor urban basic infrastructure delivery and poor urban planning. This paper analyzed the pattern and implications of urban sprawl using GIS and Remote sensing as an improved approach to analyze and explain sprawling beyond the traditional spatial or cartographic mapping and monitoring method which lacks the effectiveness to analyze and explain the details of spatiotemporal dimensions of urban sprawl. Map overlay analysis was used to calculate the rate and magnitude of the growth pattern for the four epochs of 1976, 1990, 2000 and 2014 if it could be regarded as sprawl. Results revealed that ribbon and leap-frog pattern of sprawl had fully developed North-South at approximately 25km stretch (Kano-Kaduna road) and 16km East-West on the regional arterial roads (Sokoto road and Jos road). Findings also revealed that the sprawl patterns were as a result of rapid urban population growth, increase demand for land, poor urban planning and social segregation with their respective implications. The causes of having such widespread urban sprawl needs to be studied in order to control the City’s growth.
Machine summary:
Findings also revealed that the sprawl patterns were as a result of rapid urban population growth, increase demand for land, poor urban planning and social segregation with their respective implications.
Urban sprawl is formed as a result of the development pattern which brings about implications on the city and its management causing excessive land consumption due to undervaluation of open space, congestion due to increased commuting and socio-economic segregation due to exclusionary housing market.
Zaria urban area has been experiencing sprawl over the years due to its increase in population which had led to rapid expansion that had left profound changes on the landscape in terms of land use and land cover.
This paper reports on a study of the pattern and implications of urban sprawl as it applies to Zaria Urban Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
In both developed and developing societies, this disregard is most evident in the rise of urban sprawl as the primary form of urban development, one which has come under increased criticism in recent years because of its negative environmental, social and economic effects (Newman & Kenworthy, 1999; Hillman, 1996; de Roo & Miller, 2000; Jensen, 1996; Breheny, 1992; Elkin et.
This paper examined the sprawl pattern of Zaria Urban Area using GIS and remote sensing as well as drawing implications of it and proffered solutions in controlling it.
According to the findings of this paper, uncontrolled urban sprawl in Zaria has caused many changes in the land use along the major roads at the peripheral areas.