URBAN INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES PROVISION: KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Abstract
With keen research interest, this paper focused on the provisions of urban infrastructural facilities by major stakeholders and the numerous benefits derived from it in the long run. The aim is to see how satisfactory residents are and beautiful the built environment appears or looks when infrastructural facilities are developed and managed properly by experts. The researchers adopted a method that utilizes both primary and secondary sources of data collection.Questionnaires were administered to residents in the field within the study areas, and the retrieved questionnaire formed the basis for analysis and interpretations. The researchers preferably made use of the descriptive statistics because it gives room for easy understanding and explanations. Furthermore, a very interesting statistical tool called chi-square was also significant in the testing of hypothesis carefully formulated in the body of the work. The study revealed that, infrastructural facilities development is capital intensive but its importance cannot be over emphasized. Recommending that, government at all the levels should declare a state of emergency on the development of infrastructure owing to its economic and environmental values. The study concludes that government should encourage private individuals in the building and management of infrastructural facilities
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