Makoko Neighborhood Hotspot FABULOUS URBAN. Fabulous Urban developed and implemented the Makoko Neighborhood Hotspot as part of the Makoko Urban Design Toolbox and the Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront Regeneration Plan. The Makoko Neighborhood Hotspot was designed as a technical and social infrastructure for one of Lagos' best-known urban slum settlement – Makoko. It should serve as an infrastructure hub providing urban services and as a business incubator promoting renewable energy and biogas linked community toilets. Last but not least – its purpose is to serve at large as a community empowerment tool and learning centre.
The Hotspot represents more of a concept than a project even though the architectural design aspect was carefully and ambitiously developed. Lagos living: Solving Nigeria's megacity housing crisis. Fabienne makoko solution. Makoko Solutions: Neighborhood Hotspots | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Nigeria. How Vulnerability and Fragility can turn into Strength: Lagos is located at sea level, and that itself presents some challenges. Globally it is expected that general sea level will rise by over one mm a year until 2100. This global phenomenon may locally be reinforced by the fact that developed and wealthy regions usually have more sealed surface, which will increase the storm water runoff. This is likely to be the case with Lagos which has started to work on controversial land reclamation projects, both in the lagoon and at the seashore. All these activities may additionally raise the local water level and lead to extended seasonal flooding.
This leads to the question of how to achieve a more attractive, liveable city that is economically competitive, and where its settlements are not damaged regularly by flooding. An example for such an informal settlement in Lagos is Makoko. It has the potential to become a worldwide showcase. Lagos: Managing a megacity. Lagos slums. Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Approached at night, Lagos is a dull mass lit by the glow of countless cars. Locked in queues, their headlights slice apart the city like a knife. “You see that?” An air stewardess says looking out of the window as her flight comes in to land.
“That’s traffic. Welcome to Lagos.” Lagos, which calls itself a “centre of excellence”, is a megacity with problems. Loud, dirty, unashamedly urban – that’s Lagos. Bola Tinubu, the first of three state governors since the end of military rule in 1999, remembers a time when things were a lot worse. Major improvements were undertaken by Tinubu and his successor, Babatunde Fashola, a former lawyer who served eight years as governor before the national elections in March last year. And the city’s economy has thrived. These advances were achieved despite often frustrating relations with the federal government. Yet this taught the state to become self-sufficient. He must do so fast. Nigeria 2015 Crime and Safety Report: Lagos.
Overall Crime and Safety Situation Crime Rating: Critical Crime Threats Crime is a risk throughout the country. U.S. visitors and residents experienced armed muggings, assaults, burglaries, carjackings, rapes, kidnappings, and extortion. Home invasions remain a serious threat, with armed robbers threatening even guarded compounds by scaling perimeter walls, following residents/visitors, or subduing guards to gain entry.
Armed robbers in Lagos have invaded waterfront compounds by boat. U.S. citizens, Nigerians, and other expatriates have been victims of armed robbery at banks and grocery stores and on airport roads during both daylight and evening hours. Armed robbers have targeted occupants in vehicles, and smash-and-grab robberies are common with thieves canvassing stopped vehicles for valuables. The mainland of Lagos has experienced periodic, violent clashes among street gangs known as “Area Boys.” Cyber Areas of Concern Never photograph public buildings, monuments, or airports.
Civil Unrest. Inside Makoko: danger and ingenuity in the world's biggest floating slum | Cities. “One bucket, one life,” says Ojo, puffing on a marijuana rollup. We have stopped by the Floating School, a two-storey solar-powered wooden structure that floats on the Lagos lagoon on a bed of plastic barrels. I ask him to explain what he means. It’s the young fisherman’s way of summing up the dangerous exertion that is his part-time vocation: sand dredging off the coast of Makoko, the world’s biggest floating city.
The dredgers, he explains, descend a wooden ladder into the depths of the lagoon, armed with only a bucket and the will to live. The depths to which they go mean total submersion. Then they have to climb out with a sand-laden bucket that will be emptied on to the floor of a boat. Makoko is also the perfect nightmare for the state government – a slum in full view, spread out beneath the most travelled bridge in west Africa’s largest city. An estimated 2,000 people enter Lagos every day, many ending up in informal settlements like Makoko. Water world Resistance There are none. Living in Makoko. Living In Lagos, Is It Worth It? - Travel.
FUN AND CHALLENGES OF LIVING IN LAGOSLagos, Nigeria’s centre of excellence, currently rated as the 17th most populated metropolitan area in the world and 2nd in Africa with the population of over nine million people.Like every major city of the world, Lagos too has got its own challenges. One of the toughest challenges the government is facing is how to manage the people and overcome the ever increasing congestions in the state.
But notably, in spite of all efforts, there’s still no visible improvement and the situation only gets worse with more hold-ups on the road and poor living condition for a bulk of the population.Most people move into Lagos seeking to improve their well-being. For some, well, it's a dream come true, while others come face to face with array of problems which most times they never even thought of. Well, the slogan “shine your eye, this is Lagos” is not merely a cliché. In truth, people have diverse reasons why they prefer Lagos. Lagos – a city of dreams and nightmares | D+C - Development + Cooperation.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation with more than 150 million people. Lagos State, with more than 20 million inhabitants, is the nation’s biggest urban agglomeration. Its growth rate has overburdened the existing urban management system. Power supply, traffic and sanitation are serious challenges. By Bimbola Oyesola Cities grow mainly through rural-urban migration. That is true of Lagos. Lagos is one of the world’s two dozen or so megacities (agglomerations with more than 10 million people). A short history of the megacity Geographically, Lagos is located in the south-western part of the country. First inhabited before the 15th century, Lagos grew from a small fishing and farming settlement on an island to a coastal town. In 1861, Lagos became a colony of the British.
Nonetheless, Lagos continued flourishing as a trade centre. Lagos is popularly referred to as a city that never sleeps. Infrastructure challenges Lagos State accounts for 40 % of Nigeria’s electricity consumption. CNN - Challenges of Life in Lagos. Lagos - Nigeria - Urban Growth: Challenge and Opportunities on Flipboard. Makoko. Informal Settlement in Lagos State, Nigeria Makoko is a slum neighbourhood across the 3rd Mainland Bridge located on the coast of mainland Lagos. A third of the community is built on stilts along the lagoon and the rest is on the land. The waterfront part of the community is largely harboured by the Egun people who migrated from Badagary and Republic of Benin and whose main occupation is fishing. In July 2012, the Lagos State government ordered that some of the stilts beyond the power-lines be brought down without proper notice.
This led to the destruction of several stilts on the Iwaya/Makoko waterfront and many families were rendered homeless.[1] History[edit] Makoko: A girl and her sister in a canoe Boys paddling a canoe is a common view at Makoko Makoko is sometimes referred to as the "Venice of Africa".[8] Its population is considered to be 85,840; however, the area was not officially counted as part of the 2007 census and the population has been estimated to be much higher.[2] Lagos: living off the water in Makoko – in video | Global development. Lagos: Africa's Fastest Growing Megacity.
Lagos Population 2016 - World Population Review. Lagos is a port city and the most populous city in Nigeria. The metropolitan area originated on islands, including Lagos Island, that were protected from the Atlantic Ocean by sand spits. The city has expanded onto the mainland west of the lagoon, however, with Ikeja, the capital of Lagos, and Agege over 25 miles northwest of Lagos Island. Lagos has a population estimated at 21 million in 2016, which makes it the largest city in Africa. The Lagos State Government estimates the population of Lagos at 17.5 million, although this number has been disputed by the Nigerian Government and found to be unreliable by the National Population Commission of Nigeria, which put the population at over 21 million in 2016.
Lagos surpassed Cairo in size in 2012 to become the largest city of Africa. The population was estimated at just 11.2 million in 2011 by the United Nations. Lagos Demographics Lagos was originally inhabited by the Awori group of the Yoruba people. Lagos Population Growth. Lagos 2050: Megacity is preparing to double in size. For Lagos, this is the question on many experts' lips; a headache already 17.9 million people large and due to increase twofold by 2050 according to some predictions.
A report last week from the Population Reference Bureau predicts that by 2050 three of the 10 most populous nations globally will be African -- with Nigeria at number four. The country's population is set to rocket to 397 million, bolstered by high fertility rates and consolidated by low net migration. To put this figure in context, by the century's midpoint, Nigeria's population would be larger than Central Africa's in its entirety.
The population boom will impact the whole country, but nowhere will it be more profound than in Lagos. With that in mind, we set out to find out how the megacity is rising to the challenge by asking experts what it needs to do not just to adapt, but to prosper. Infrastructure: Rethinking urban geography Localized solutions will be key to maximizing habitable space. Lagos population ‘rises by 85 people per hour’ The World Economic Forum (WEF) says Lagos is the fastest-growing city in the world, with a growth of 85 people per hour. The population growth of Lagos is faster than that of London and New York put together, with the two cities growing at a rate of 9 and 10 people per hour. Earlier in 2015, London reached a record 8.6 million inhabitants, while Lagos grossed over 20 million inhabitants in the same year. Delhi, India and Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, trail directly behind Nigeria’s commercial capital, with a population growth of 79 and 74 people per hour, respectively.
Quoting a development report by the UK Guardian, WEF says in its review of 2015: “By 2025, the Chinese city of Shenzhen will be home to more than 12 million people. In 1950, it was a fishing village with only 3,148 citizens. “In 1960, the only city in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of over 1 million people was Johannesburg. Ten years later, there were four. “Worldwide, urban areas are expanding. Lagos. From hawkers to criminals: how the Lagos ban on street selling hurts the city | Cities. On a mostly disused railway line in Ikeja, central Lagos, Bola Jimo has spread out her wares: drinks and snacks and small goods on stools, fabrics laid out directly on the tracks. “I get here at 7 or 8 am and don’t leave until 10pm”, explains Jimo, a 40-year-old single mother of three. As we speak, her 18-year-old son minds the stall: both of her sons are street traders as well, weaving between lanes of traffic selling to commuters trapped in their cars in Lagos’s notorious gridlock.
“It’s dangerous of course,” she says. “I never wanted them to do it, but life happened that way.” On a good day she makes roughly 1,000 naira (£2.50), and works six days a week. “It is hard but I have no other choice. If life is hard, it is about to get harder. “The task force and police came three times this morning alone,” she says, adding that because street trading is so difficult to ban, authorities are resorting to aggressive tactics. Street trading is woven into the culture of daily life in Lagos. Lagos of the future: Megacity's ambitious plans. Lagos authorities have demolished houses in one of the city's coastal slumsMany people have been left displaced and without a place to sleepThe city is taking a series of steps to modernize its overburdened infrastructureLagos, one of Africa's most-populous cities, has some 15 million inhabitants (CNN) -- For decades, residents in Makoko have boarded wooden canoes to navigate through a labyrinth of narrow waterways crisscrossing a floating shanty town perched on stilts above Lagos Lagoon's murky canals.
Lacking access to basic infrastructure, including clean drinking water, electricity and waste disposal, and prone to severe environmental and health hazards, Makoko is one of the many chaotic human settlements that have sprouted in Lagos in recent years. Its makeshift shacks shelter thousands of people fighting for space in one the world's most crowded cities. Interactive: Lagos - Engulfed by floods The demolition left possessions and the remnants of people's lives floating away. Untitled. Eyebrows Raised Over Stalled $1bn Light Rail Project In Lagos. Lagos State Government has had to explain the delay in the completion of the state’s light rail project for which it borrowed N160 billion ($981 million) from the World Bank. Lagos, Africa’s largest city with an estimated population of 21 million people, struggles with high population density and an ineffective transport system in desperate need of overhaul.
The state government’s explanation was prompted by the publication of the state’s debt profile by the federal government. Lagos and Abuja have not always enjoyed the best relationship, a trend further confirmed by the commercial capital’s reservation over the decision of the administrative capital to make the debt profile public. Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola, who is at the tail end of his second tenure, stated that the debt was not in any way overwhelming the state citing the fact that Lagos has the fifth largest economy in Africa.
The Light Rail project has however been a very long journey for the state’s transportation sector. Lagos Rail Mass Transit. Lagos Rail Mass Transit is an urban rail system being developed and under construction[2] in Lagos. The system is being managed by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA).[2] The railway equipment including electric power, signalling, rolling stock, and fare collection equipment will be provided by the private sector under a Concession Contract. LAMATA is responsible for policy direction, regulation, and infrastructure for the network. The first section of the network, Phase I of the Blue Line, was originally planned to be completed in 2011. After many delays caused by funding shortfalls.
When a project review was completed in 2018 by Alstom, the commencement date was pushed back to 2022,[3] and subsequently pushed forward to 2021.[1] Timeline[edit] 2008: A metro is proposed for Lagos, allegedly with a completion date of 2011.2009: Construction commences on the Blue Line.[2]2010: Lagos Rail Mass Transit to proceed. History[edit] Rolling stock[edit] Routes[edit] See also[edit]
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Makoko: Nigeria's floating community. Nigeria's Makoko slum where up to 250,000 residents huddle in homes on the lagoon. Does Makoko Floating School's collapse threaten the whole slum's future? | Cities. Inside Makoko: danger and ingenuity in the world's biggest floating slum | Cities. Urban poverty in Nigeria: a case study of Agege area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Falling poverty and rising income inequality in Nigeria.
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Mapping 50 years of urban growth in Lagos. Lagos – a city of dreams and nightmares | D+C - Development + Cooperation. Untitled. UN-HABITAT. ‘Nigerians can have affordable housing, if govt provides facilities’ » The Guardian Nigeria. Nigeria sees growth for demand in luxury residential property » The Guardian Nigeria. The Guardian Nigeria.