Residential Mobility and Land Use Planning: A Case study of Uyo

Abstract

Introduction Different reasons impel people to move. Generally, people who decide to move or change location do so for better economic, political or cultural reasons or actually to enjoy certain amenitics. While the provision of infrastructural facilities is known to enhance the comfortability of a place, thereby sustaining the desirability to stay, the insufficiency or complete absence of such facilities heightens the propensity to move. The situation usually induces a stress-strain effect on the individual or groups and acts as a push factor, catalyzing the decision to move or stay, depending on how the problem is perceived.