Lagos - Opportunities and Challenges of Urban Growth
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- Created on: 01-06-18 12:04
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- Lagos - opportunities and challenges of urban growth
- Social opportunities
- More healthcare centres and hospitals
- Better range of medicine
- 68% of population have secondary education
- Electricity avaliable for cooking and lighting
- This means businesses can be developed
- Water treatment plants
- Safe water piped to areas of city
- More healthcare centres and hospitals
- Economic opportunities
- Better job opportunities
- Many jobs in construction
- As the city is rapidly growing
- Lagos is home to many of the country's:
- Banks
- Government departments
- Manufacturing industries
- Major ports (2)
- Lagos has a thriving film and music industry
- Nollywood films are very popular
- Social challenges
- Over 60% of the city's population live in the slums of Makoto
- Houses are flimsy wooden huts built on stilts above the lagoon
- There is only 1 primary school in Makoto
- Many families cannot afford to send their children to school
- There is only 1 primary school in Makoto
- Communal toilets are shared by 15 households
- Most of the waste goes to the lagoon below
- Causes health problems eg cholera
- Most of the waste goes to the lagoon below
- Water comes from a communal water point
- Can be up to 3km away
- Only electricity comes from illegal connections that are often cut out
- High levels of crime
- Slum is self policed by gangs
- Houses are flimsy wooden huts built on stilts above the lagoon
- Over 60% of the city's population live in the slums of Makoto
- Economic challenges
- Aren't enough formal jobs for all the migrants
- People have to go to desperate resorts to make money
- Eg scavenging in the rubbish dump
- People have to go to desperate resorts to make money
- Aren't enough formal jobs for all the migrants
- Environmental challenges
- Only 40% of rubbish is collected
- There are large rubbish dumps containing toxic waste
- Waste disposal and emissions from factories aren't controlled
- Causing air and water pollution
- Traffic congestion
- Many face 2 hour commutes
- Only 40% of rubbish is collected
- Social opportunities
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