Assessment of Population pressure on Urban Housing in Ngwa Road, Ohanku and Obohia Parts of Aba South, Abia State Nigeria

The effect of population growth on urban housing is a global challenge but the worst examples are found in the developing world which has led to an increased growth of poorly planned cities in the developing world, and loss of aesthetics. The aim of this research is to assess the level of population pressure on urban housing within Ngwa Road, Ohanku and Obohia environs in Aba South local government area in Abia State. The research evaluated housing demand and supply in the area, condition of houses in the area, factors encouraging population growth in the study area and level of compliance of buildings with town planning laws. The study area has an estimated 2021 population of 138017 as projected from 88,951 in 2016 with a growth rate of 2.94%. The research data was collected through household survey, Aba South Town Planning Authority, National Population Commission and the Aba South Street Naming and House Numbering Office. The simple random sampling technique and the purposive sampling technique were employed by the researcher with a sample size of 399.9 at 0.05 confidence level which was determined using the Taro Yamane method for sample size collection. The Principle Component Analysis (PCA), Principle Component Regression (PCR), standard deviation, weighted mean, percentages/proportions to analyze the data collected. The Principal Component Analysis result showed that component I have the highest loading with eigen value of 6.721 while component II has an eigen value of 3.279. The result showed that ease of access to commercial activities and educational level of heads of households are major factors encouraging population growth in the study area. The research revealed a housing demand and supply cluster estimate of 60.11% which was not considered statistically high. The average response of 93.2% is that houses in the study area are in a poor condition. The Aba South town planning authority revealed a 0.741 standard deviation which shows a high level of non-compliance with town planning laws. The research hypothesis was tested using Spearman Rank Correlation test at 0.05 level of confidence and the null hypothesis was accepted. Looking at the Land-UseLand-Cover images of the area obtained for 3 epochs from 1980-2020, the study area experienced an major growth in rate of housing stock after year 2000 and with increasing population growth, the area may soon be unable to carry the population that will be found there. This research calls the attention of the Abia State government in particular and the federal government in general to address these challenges through recommended public-private partnership and decentralization of pull factors. These recommendat

An Integrated Approach for Crop Production Analysis from Geographic Information System Data using SqueezeNet

Predictions and estimations are very important for agriculture applications. The estimation results on crop production may have a huge impact in the economy of a country by changing their export and import data. The estimation of crop production was started by collecting information manually from the fields and analyzing it using a computer. However, the accuracy was not up to the mark due to the error caused by manual collection of data. The Geographic Information System (GIS) applications are developed to store the information observed from the satellite images on change detection in town planning, disaster management, business development and vegetation management. The proposed work estimates the crop production of Indian states from a GIS dataset with a SqueezeNet algorithm. The performance of the SqueezeNet algorithm is compared with the traditional Inception and ResNet algorithms.

Warehouse development and town planning policies in the UK

PurposeThis paper offers a review of national and local planning policies towards warehouse development within the UK.Design/methodology/approachThe first sections of the paper provide a description of the simple method of enquiry and sources of information used in the paper, outlines of the main factors driving the demand for warehousing space in the UK, and of the nature, scale and operation of modern warehouses, and a short review into the limited literature published to date, on town planning and on how it has influenced warehouse development. This is followed by an examination of some of the planning issues associated with warehouse development, two mini-case studies of how these issues are perceived and played out, a discussion of some of the issues raised in this examination and the mini-case studies.FindingsTown planning policies were traditionally seen as a restraint on the development of warehousing but while current national and local planning policies make little explicit reference to warehousing, they have often been cited in support of new warehouse development because such policies emphasise the importance of supporting economic growth and fostering the conditions in which businesses can invest and expand.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper has a number of limitations, not least that its source material is drawn from the Internet, and in that no primary data were collected from warehouse developers, warehouse operators, local planning officers or local authority councillors, and that the geographical coverage was limited.Originality/valueThe paper offers an accessible review of the current town planning issues associated with warehouse development in the UK.

LAND CONVERSION PROCESSES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT IN THE DISTRICT OF PETALING

Land use planning is part and parcel of both land development and town planning. In Malaysia, these two areas are steered independently, the former by a state or district’s land office and the latter by the state’s local authority. This study looks at the aspects of land development where land use conversion plays a crucial part, where it brings significance to land revenue. As the leading district in Malaysia, the district of Petaling is undeniably the busiest land office in the nation, working hand-in-hand with three city councils. Land premium that is imposed on approved applications for land use conversion has been one of the main contributors to the district and state’s revenue as a whole. Given the hefty charges that have been imposed by the consultants for land use conversions, it is found that the application charges that are imposed by the land office are minimal. An assessment study on land conversion has been conducted and the result shows that the local community assessment score on familiarity, collectively stands at only 40%. It is recommended that an awareness on land use as basic knowledge should be given priority as it may contribute to more efficient land development and town planning, as a whole.

"And ... the dazzle continued inside ...": New Zealand interior and landscape architectures of the 1930s

The Depression began in the late 1920s, but was not simply triggered by the October 1929 crash in Wall Street. In the two years between 1928-29 and 1930-31, "export income nearly halved. ... The government ... slashed expenditure," including severe cuts to public spending in health and education. As Ann Calhoun notes:[t]he effect of the 1930s Depression on [Schools of Art] students and instructors alike was massive: salaries were reduced, the school admission age was raised, overscale salaries were limited, grants for sewing and science were withdrawn, administration grants were cut back, training colleges in Wellington and Dunedin closed and student allowances decreased, and grants to kindergartens were withdrawn.A proposal for a town-planning course by John Mawson (the Director of Town Planning)) and Cyril Knight (Head of Architecture, Auckland University College) likewise failed due to "lack of numbers and Depression cutbacks." Helen Leach also notes the impact of cuts to education more generally, writing that: "[m]others of young children who expected them to start school at four or five learned in May 1932 that the age of entry would be raised to six."

COURT’S DEFENSE OF PERSON’S RIGHTS IN A SPHERE OF CITY PLANNING BY PUBLIC ASSOCIATIONS: DEFINITION OF A PROBLEM

Unauthorized buildings are enough common problem of city planning in Ukraine. There is very popular practice to receive permissive documents after the beginning of building works and before commissioning. Therefore, effectiveness of activity of the Ukrainian State Architectural Building Service is not high. As a result, last decade some citizens and public organizations take part in struggle with city planning violations. Therefore, an investigation of a normative base of an appropriate activity of public organizations and court’s practice in this sphere is an actual task in purpose of an adoption of some legislative decisions. The author had identified position of Supreme Court on duty to application a rule about legal interest of a plaintiff. Only fact of an unauthorized building is not enough for its stopping on claims of not interested persons. The cessation of a town planning violation is possible only in condition of risk for rights and legal interests of plaintiffs (citizens and / or legal entities) or on actions of authorized state organs. The number of decisions of Supreme Court decided in favor of plaintiffs in cases on the claims of citizens and public organizations regarding unauthorized buildings of apartment buildings and other capital objects of town planning is small enough. Actual procedural legislation and normative legal acts which define a status of public organizations don’t provide its right to take legal action for a defense of rights and interests of legal entities and persons, territorial communities, public interests. Nowadays the question of provision public organizations by procedural interest in appropriate categories of disputes in the legislation kept up. Procedural interest of public organizations, its legal interest directly links to the question of court’s defense of public interests, with an institute of actio popularis. Because such organizations have to defend only public, not personal interest in accordance to its statutory object. It is important to understand that an interest for the stopping of illegal building cannot be personalize as an interest of any citizen. Therefore, it is an actual task to develop theoretical ideas about court’s defense of public interest. Nowadays Ukraine accepted the possibility of the defense of public interests only in spheres of consumer’s rights and ecological disputes. The legal public interest in other spheres of public life is not legitimize for the court’s defense. The author has made a conclusion about potential possibility and necessity of legislative recognizing of the right of public organizations to take legal action for the defense of rights of its members in the sphere of unauthorized buildings.

PECULIARITIES OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION IN THE FIELD OF URBAN PLANNING

In modern conditions of territorial development, rational processes of urbanization are especially important. Lessons of economic activity have shown that the solution of important problems of innovative economic and social development of territories is impossible without the organization of fundamentally new relations in the urban planning system, improvement of methods of territorial management, change of management style, psychology and thinking of territorial development, expansion and deepening democracy, increasing the responsibility of all parts of the management of territories. The basis for regulating the processes of general planning at the national and territorial levels is the regulatory and legal support of the urban planning system. According to the world experience, the main requirements for the regulatory support of general planning processes are the following: informativeness and availability of data for all categories of stakeholders in urban planning; development of the system of public control, monitoring of general planning processes, which provides increase of transparency of town-planning processes; ensuring the preservation of cultural, archaeological, architectural, historical heritage in the urban planning system; reduction of corruption in the urban planning system; ensuring the processes of deregulation of the urban planning system as a leading world experience in the organization of regulatory processes. The formation of settlement systems is a multifactorial process, so the modeling of such systems requires a detailed analysis of the functions they perform and their weight priorities for the population. These tasks should be implemented by introducing innovative solutions into the system of legislative support, which is the task of this article. Therefore, it is advisable to determine the prospects for the development of spatial planning systems in Ukraine in accordance with leading global trends and factors of external and internal influence.