LAGOS
influence of Lagos | explanation | fact | area |
migration from rural areas | urbanisation
| 40% from rural areas | within its region |
key location for many jobs | brings economic growth and infrastructure development. furthermore, more jobs means a rise in disposable income and increase in standard of life | more than 90% of sea port activity is in this region | within its region |
wealth | lots of taxes which can be spent on the wider region | Lagos has more than 6000 millionaires | within its region |
economic importance |
| 25% of Nigeria’s GDP from Lagos | within Nigeria |
key economic contributor | crude oil is a huge part of Nigeria GDP, most of which comes through Lagos | crude oil is 14% of Nigeria GDP | within Nigeria |
historical/cultural importance | lots of businesses and infrastructure remaining from 1991 which have historical importance |
| within Nigeria |
key education | Uni of Lagos is one of Nigeria’s leading institutions
| n/a | within Nigeria |
film | home to Nollywood
| second biggest movie industry | across the world |
trade | one of the largest and busiest ports in Africa, boosts trade and connectivity and cultural exchange | n/a | across the world |
airport | MMI airport is a major hub for west Africa and Europe connection | over 7 million passengers a year | across the world |
ICT | major ICT hub
| n/a | across the world |
40% of migrants in Lagos come from the surrounding rural areas
influence of migration on growth | influence of migration on character |
widespread slums throughout the city | busier, noisier, more polluted |
urban development due to increasing demand | multicultural - good for creative arts and culture |
in 1950 Lagos was just on Lagos Island | city more globalised |
now Lagos is more than 50km inland | more inequality → migrants from LIDCs arrive in slums whereas others end up in richer areas such as Banana Island |
ways of life in wider Lagos | ways of life in Makoko slums | |
culture | increasingly multicultural home to Nollywood many tourist sites and beaches, for example Lekki Conservation Centre | more traditional culture fishing, timber works children swim in dirty lagoons |
ethnicity | multicultural (250 ethnic groups) but the dominant ethnic group is Yoruba many international citizens, particularly from surrounding LIDCs | most migrants from Benin founded by the Egun ethnic group |
housing | huge range across the city with extremes like Makoko and Banana Island Banana Island has 353 luxury land plots and the average price is 2 mil for an apartment | only 10% of residents own their house most houses are on stilts over the lagoon - also have high fire risk |
leisure | widespread opportunities, including:
| small scale, dancing, churches people go to bars to watch premier league games |
consumption | many luxury shops and restaurants, for example the Palms, largest shopping mall | 20% unemployment and most employed in primary means low disposable income |
challenge | why | explanation |
housing availability | only 2,000 official homes built per year but 2,000 people move in per day lots of illegal and unregistered houses because many can’t afford homes | extensive slum creation like Makoko, which houses 250,000 people most people don’t own the land they live on so governments can just bulldoze houses also means residents don’t want to improve their region |
transport provision | city has grown very fast and it doesn’t have the money to fund big transport infrastructure many can’t afford private transport there is no city wide rail system and only 3 bridges from mainland to Lagos island | also many traffic issues and it’s one of the most polluted cities enormous traffic jams the ports are also overwhelmed by volume of trade |
waste management | 10,000 tonnes of waste per day and growing - 12% of which is plastic due to lack of clean tap water - 60 million water bottles per day 40% of rubbish is collected, remainder is burnt or discarder | causes death of fish (bad for Makoko fishing communities) 30 landfill sites around the lagoon pollute the waterways health impacts and dangerous for children |
strategy | what does it do | facts | environmental sustainability | economic sustainability | social sustainability |
Eko Atlantic | overcome the cities housing problem by building new housing on reclaimed land | 25km² started in 2009 |
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floating houses | housing crisis/education | floating school on Lagos Lagoon and could be rolled out to include shops and houses |
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tempohousing | housing crisis | recycled shipping containers converted into housing |
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