2013
DOI: 10.2495/ut130251
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Classical modernist planning and the menace of automobile dependence in cities: the case of Abuja, Nigeria

Abstract: Unequivocally, it has become increasingly clear that the approach of Classical Modernist planning (CMP) that prevailed after World War II emphasizes huge permissivity for low-density sprawling suburban development and the meteoric rise of motorization in cities. The implicit "predict and provide" approach of building and expansion of roads to ease congestion continued to skew investments on transportation towards permitting private automobile ownership and use at the expense of public transportation. As a resu… Show more

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“…Abuja is a planned new city (established in 1976 and developed mostly in the 1980 and 1990s by the interim Federal Military Governments), which replaced the former capital city of Lagos. Abuja's Master Plan adopted the Classical Modernist Planning approach produced by Le Corbusier in Chandigarh and Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia (Elleh, 2001; Federal Capital Development Authority [FCDA], 1979) depicting the Garden City concept with an American pattern of suburban development (Newman et al , 2009; Razak, 2013; Transportation Research Board [TRB], 2009; Wang et al , 2014). The FCC was planned to have four phases of physical development occupying land space of about 250 sq.…”
Section: Abuja City: Providing the Experience-based Construct And Sce...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Abuja is a planned new city (established in 1976 and developed mostly in the 1980 and 1990s by the interim Federal Military Governments), which replaced the former capital city of Lagos. Abuja's Master Plan adopted the Classical Modernist Planning approach produced by Le Corbusier in Chandigarh and Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia (Elleh, 2001; Federal Capital Development Authority [FCDA], 1979) depicting the Garden City concept with an American pattern of suburban development (Newman et al , 2009; Razak, 2013; Transportation Research Board [TRB], 2009; Wang et al , 2014). The FCC was planned to have four phases of physical development occupying land space of about 250 sq.…”
Section: Abuja City: Providing the Experience-based Construct And Sce...mentioning
confidence: 99%