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Causes of Urban Sprawl and Approaches for Its Containment in Zaria Urban Area, NigeriaBy Abdulaziz Shuaibu Kugu, Isa Musa, Fatima Yahaya Mahmood
Abstract: This paper analyses the causes that are responsible for undesirable patterns of urban sprawl that have become a problem affecting excessive land consumption, rapid urban population growth, increasing transportation costs, loss of open spaces, and transforming the city into decayed areas. GIS 10.1 was used to calculate the total land area of the study area, sprawled communities, and that of the institutions that occupied more land within the Zaria Urban …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2025 · pp. 1–9 Read article →