IMPACT OF URBAN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT ON THE FCT DWELLERS

Abstract

The uncontrollable growth of the urban population in Abuja has brought a myriad of challenges. Increase in rural-urban migration, the economic, infrastructural, and social conditions in these urban centers have been incapable of providing a good standard of living for their inhabitants. With a population of about over 4 million, Abuja has faced different social amenities difficulties due to a lack of proper planning and management of dwellers. Using secondary data, the study expands on current knowledge with regard to the current challenges facing Abuja’s urbanization, the Federal Capital Territory. The study also analyses some of these long-standing challenges, their interrelatedness, and how they exacerbate the Nigerian government’s inability to solve them. Planning and mismanagement of dwellers which caused different gaps in the development of certain social amenities as well as led to the poor standard of living was discussed and carefully analyzed. Furthermore, the conclusion lays a response to these challenges with recommendations that Abuja City's transportation issues are worse than the national average and need to be addressed. Correcting the master plan's errors and flaws is necessary. Desertification in Abuja due to building and road construction activities should be checked by planting trees to protect the environment.