期刊名称：International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management
电子版ISSN：2395-5252
出版年度：2021
卷号：3
期号：8
页码：1275-1283
DOI：10.35629/5252-030811091110
语种：English
出版社：IJAEM JOURNAL
摘要：Unplanned and spontaneous urbanization particularly in developing countries has trapped many people as slum dwellers. The morphology is poor housing with polluted environmental condition coupled with its attendant poverty and insecurity. This paper takes into account the various socio-economic and planning constraints of the slum morphology of the core area of Ado Ekiti to address the environmental impact. The method of the study is based on a sampled design questionnaires for a head of household, the distribution and collection across the study area and the administrative analysis with presentation of data in tabular format .The finding of analysed data revealed that most of the buildings do not only lack basic infrastructure and accessibility but are mostly weak structurally. The environmental effect includes indiscriminate duping of solid waste, air pollution and their various health hazards. This made dwellers to have diversity of livelihood assets and potentials..Therefore, in other to solve the problem of the unhealthy and unpleasant faced by the inhabitants of the study area the paper comes up with recommendations to address the problems that underlie urban poverty in term of employment, income health shelter and access to urban infrastructure.
关键词：Urbanisation;Slum morphology;Environmental Impact;Urban poverty and policy measures
