Some folks do mistake beauty and infrastructure with urbanization,although it cut across.Some villages has better access to infrastructure but that does not necessarily justify it's urbanized.Urbanization cut through beauty,infrastructure,master-minded city planning,tourism and resort potentials,street grooviness and liveliness,modernity growth rate and in fact the expansion rate.All modern day city are once a village or small town with passage of time and combinations of factors lead to it urban settlement,glance through the city type and site and get an idea of the factor that initially lead to it urbanization. The list might not be okay with you where there are humans there are varying outlook, bring up your arguments logically with reason in write-up and snapshots.






1.Lagos
*City type-industrial city
*City site-coastline
*major urban problem-traffic congestion

Following

checking them out

Buying space

2.Abuja
*city type-Administrative city
*city site-focal route
*major urban problem-Housing

This seems promising. One can't help but notice that the number of skyscrapers in Abuja can be counted on one hand

3.Port-harcourt
*city type-port city
*city site-entrepot
*major urban problem-environmental deterioration

I will be back wen it makes it to front page

4.Ibadan
*city type-educational (cultural) city
*city site-focal route
*major urban problem-squattered areas

5.Uyo
*city type-Administrative city
*city site-meander
*major urban problem-squattered area

Ibadan my city, the biggest slum city with the most rusted brown roof dwelling place on earth?

Wonders shall never end

6.Enugu
*city type-mining city
*city site-focal route
*major urban problem-high cost of living

Henrydone:
4.Ibadan
*city type-educational (cultural) city
*city site-focal route
*major urban problem-squattered areas

I think this thread was created with the sole aim of laundering the battered image of Ibadan. Epic fail

We know Ibadan and ibadan knows itself.

Urbanized truly....THese are locations i have not seen in my life....


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7.Kano
*city type-commercial city
*city site-alluvial plain
major urban problem-squattered area

8.Ikot-ekpene
*city type-satellite city
*city site-focal route
*major urban problem-high cost of living

9.Calabar
City type-resort city
City site-coastal lowland

9.Onitsha
City type-market city
City site-river port

11.Kaduna
City type-administrative city
City site-focal route

12.Akure
City type-Administrative city
City site-focal route

13.Owerri
City type-Administrative
City site-focal route

Still Onitsha

14.Asaba
City type-Administrative
City site-river port

Not bad, kano should be in 4th position after portharcout. .... And yes ibadan is ancient, yet urban. It's so big that it has a fair share of urban and rural areas.

15.Abeokuta
City type-Administrative
City site-defensive

[size=28pt]Onithsha, the most polluted and dirtiest city in the world? How manage? [/size]

Ibadan beats Onitsha hands down in terms of Urbanization, businesses, foreign investments, roads, and size.

Please demote Onitsha. Even kano beats Onitsha hands down.

More Ibadan urban.













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Onitsha


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Onitsha
We know Onitsha and Onitsha knows itself




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