Urban challenges - nigeria + eddinton

why is Nigeria Important

• Biggest economy in west Africa

• population of 200m (biggest in Africa)

• oil/gas over 90% of trade revenue

• Nollywood (Lagos), biggest film industry in Africa

• Centre for tech industry in west Africa (Lagos)

why is Lagos important regionally

Regionally

• +1,000 people migrate per day from surrounding countryside to live in Lagos, more travel in to trade

• Centre for trade with ppl from surrounding towns/ villages

• lot’s of services e.g hospitals/ rubbish collection/ emergency services - help to support surrounding area

why has Lagos grown so rapidly

Push factors

• life in rural areas is harsh

• conflicts

• climate change - droughts

Pull factors

• more factories, seaports, oil refineries → more jobs

• booming music scene → internationally known DJ/ music artist → attract young ppl → more rural-urban migration

what are some environmental opportunities in Lagos

• target to plant 10m trees by 2020

• clean up Lagos waterfront - collecting plastic waste

• Encourage solar energy

• new park on Lagos Island - freedom park

how many people live in Makoko

90,000

how bad is congestion near Makoko Lagos

VERY BAD!! congestion costs £2.4B (£2,368,000,000)

what’re some facts about Makoko

• population of 90,000

• old fishing village

• lack of services e.g school, sanitation

• Lagoon pulluted

• Health centres e.g maternity services → infant mortality ⬇ (less baby die)

what’re some facts about Otodo Gbame

• old fishing village (ancestral)

• demolished in 2017

• 4,700 ppl left with no homes and jobs after demolish

• shows risk of not having ‘legal title’

how is Lagos going to improve congestion

by building a light rail

what’re some facts about the Lagos light rail

• starts at Marina

• There’s 2 different lines: The blue line goes north (27km), The red line goes west (37km)

• trains are electric → less pollution → less noise → less CO2

• aim for 1m passengers per day

• Construction took 14/15 years (was suppose to take 2 years, 2009 ~ 2011) started from 2009 ~ 2023/24

• paid by Lagos state

why is Lagos important nationally

• provides a third of Nigeria’s GDP

• lot’s of TNC e.g shell

• location of national stadium and naval headquarters

• the financial services centre for Nigeria

• hosts the central bank

• lot’s of cultural diversity

why is Lagos important internationally

• International port and airport

• 5th largest economy in Africa

• Technology centre - Microsoft, IBM (TNC)

• Headquarters for Nigerian oil industry

what’re some facts about Eddington

• located at the west edge of Cambridge

• build on greenfield (university land)

• it’s a new town/ neighbourhood

• phase 1 = 1,800 homes

• half of the homes are for university workers

• houses built with cement → concrete → CO2 emissions

how is Eddington sustainable in water and energy conservation

• houses are well insulated

• photo-voltaic roof tiles (solar panels)

• district heating networks - gas powered → less production of boilers

• grey water supply → water from rain go straight to lake ( use less treated water) → pump into homes for e.g washing machine/ toilet

how is Eddington sustainable in waste recycling

• underground chutes which is replaced with traditional bins

• will alert when bin is full

• less CO2 emissions from driving trash truck everyday → save energy

• reduce transport cost

how is Eddington sustainable in social and community

• the schools build homes for birds e.g swifts, bats

• planted +2000 TREES

• built a new primary school → reduce use of cars

• local bakery/ café

• community centre

how is Eddington sustainable in transport

• U bus → electrically powered, travels from Eddington to Biomedical centre

• cycle paths → new/ good cycle way

• limited parking → encourage people to use public transport and walk