The current trends on urbanization among cities.

1. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
URBANIZATION TRENDS
CHECKPOINT ASSIGNMENT WK 7
SOCIOLOGY 120
PROFESSOR LEE DAFFIN
MECHELLE DAVIDSON
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LAGOS NIGERIA’S URBANIZATION TRENDS
As urban living fast becomes the predominant of the world’s population growth, it is
changing societies with affects to the health and economics of those living within these urban
areas. Nigeria currently have six cities with a current population of one million or more, As
these populations growth demands for urban accommodations in Nigeria rises by the day, so
too does the disadvantage of living conditions available to them (Awofes, 2010/2011). With
70% of Nigerians urban population living in crude disadvantaged housing developments, and
showing only to multiply across Nigeria with very few of these new migrants able to afford
adequate housing. Urbanization trends within Lagos, Nigeria has evidence suggesting that it is
forecasted to reach a population of 25 million by 2025, making Lagos the third largest city after
that of Mumbai and Tokyo (Awofes, 2010/2011).
Urban Disadvantages
With the perceived economic opportunities available within Nigeria’s growing cities,
Lagos receives more rural-urban migration than any other does, skirting currently 18 million
inhabitants. This population growth trend far exceeds the already overstretched economic
infrastructure of these urban development’s benefits, while increasing the socioeconomically
disadvantages of these areas has shown a direct association connected with increasing
mortality risks for these areas (Antai & Moradi, 2010).
Nigeria having the fastest urbanization growth within the world is leading cause for
poverty influenced economic developments increase of infectious diseases and diarrhea’s
associated with safe drinking water and housing quality contributing to the increasing child

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mortalities and increased health risks of urbanization. As poor disadvantaged urban
communities characterized by overcrowding, unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitary waste
services, and other hazardous pollutions increases, so shall the availability of resources for
which urban livings benefits that were ideal to those of low to middle income migrants (Antai
& Moradi, 2010).
Economic Performances
With economic performances failing along with governance, housing policies, and legal
institutions falling short in the capacity for developing urban economics by providing only a
fraction of the growing social needs within these urban areas being met also. This continuation
of Nigerians rural-urban migration to perceived areas of opportunities will persist in providing
increased challenges for matching infrastructures, public utilities, and other social amenities
that are over whelming both the state and local governments as of current.
When Lagos became one of sub-Saharan Africa’s’ first mega-urban regions with a
metropolitan population of 10 million inhabitants, and continues to grow scientists’ declare
that by 2015 an estimated 16 million will assure Lego’s eleventh place as the largest urban
system of the world (Antai & Moradi, 2010).
Place like Lagos of increasing population in urban living under these disadvantaged
conditions will only contribute further to the limited financial, human, and material resources
available and important for the safe developments of communities within these areas of rapid
economic and industrial growth areas.

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Environmental Safeguards
As inequalities in the distribution, access, availability, and use result in new and re-
accruing hazards to the health and well-being of both individuals and environments occurring
just as rapidly. It is important that education, training, research, and preventative practice to
provide as safeguards to the environmental health and wellbeing of these communities
(Shendell & Ana, 2011). Environmental health sciences coupled with its management will help
to further educate and train those Nigerians already semi-skilled officers in the EPH, and
increase the advantages associated with the safety of our environments health. These will only
be the start of needed safety policies and practices that scientists specialized educations in
epidemiology, biotechnology, and toxicology as important concentrations with environmental
health sciences in keeping the worlds environment healthy worldwide.

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Antai, D., & Moradi, T. (2010). Urban area Disadvantage and Under -5 Mortality. Environmental
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Awofes, P. O. (2010/2011). One out of Every Two Nigerians Now Live in A City. World Policy
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Shendell, D. G., & Ana, G. R. (2011). Promoting Environmental Public Health inRapidly
Urbanizing Areas of Less-Developed Countries in Africa . Journal of Environmental
Health, 26-35.