One effect of huge increase in people living in urban areas like Kano, Lagos and Onitasha (Nigeria) is the rise of the megacity, which is a city that has more than 10 million inhabitants. Urban sprawl is when the population of a city becomes dispersed over an increasingly large geographical area. This movement from higher density urban cores to lower density suburbs means that as cities expand, they often begin to take up significant tracts of land formerly used for agriculture. Sprawl also increases the need for travel infrastructure, such as roads, because people’s homes are likely to be farther away from their working places and the amenities needed for daily use.
Whether an urban development process can be viewed as positive or negative depends on many factors. One vital factor in this evaluation is Access. Is the city accessible to all? Urbanisation can be termed positive if the old and young, male and female, rich and poor, educated and uneducated are able to access it's infrastructural provisions to make a living for themselves
@Ejiga Opaluwa, are you indirectly saying that the urbanization processes in Lagos, Kano and Onitsha is negative for the people's standard of living?
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