ABSTRACT

The world is increasingly becoming urbanized and the rate at which city populations grow and
countries urbanize is indicative of the pace of social and economic change (Donk 2006 quoted
by Olujimi J 2009).The urban environment in the world have gone through various stages of
deterioration which most of them can be attributed to poor planning practice, this is a very
common phenomenon in Nigeria; where corrupt practice have interfered with planning
activities all over the country. These conditions have posed great sustainable development
challenges for urban centres in Nigeria.

Nigeria is one of the so-called economic giants in Africa, having a population of over 150 million
people; the rate of urbanization growth in the country has put pressure on the existing
infrastructure with increasing number of slums in the country. The urban infrastructural decay
such as road network, lack of portable water supply, bad drainages and canals, poor housing
and poor waste management systems have increased the environment threat within the urban
populace ( Gbadegesin and Aluko, 2010).

Urban renewal is a planning strategy that has been introduced to improve urban conditions,
which may have been observed to deteriorate in quality and efficiency. It is also described as
the aggregate of techniques which have been used for the treatment of urban problems in a
physical development.