Dear Reader,
Happy New Year! Welcome again to Citified, the monthly newsletter by the Lagos Urban Development Initiative. We are passionate about how we as citizens can live in a Lagos we love, and to make this happen we must ensure that we have a voice when decisions are being made about our communities, our neighborhoods, and our city.
This month's newsletter will provide an overview of all the projects we intend to carry out this year, including the first Bridge Series event of the year: a networking session for professionals in architecture, urban activism, film & photography, technology, art, public space design, tourism, research and writing.
Yours,
Olamide Udoma-Ejorh
Executive Director
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Urban Vertical Farming Feasibility Study
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The pilot on urban vertical farming is a drive that responds to an impending food crisis, as climate change threatens to undermine the global food systems. The global agriculture sector has been affected by climate change, and vice versa as traditional agricultural methods contribute to deforestation and carbon emissions. Additionally, the high level of urbanization in Lagos implies high food demands. Farms on the fringes of the Lagos Metropolitan area have been unable to meet up with the excessive food demand. The project thus aims to combine modern technology, design and techniques/practices to enhance food production efficiency and the social ecosystem surrounding that process.
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Lagos Urban Development Initiative Library: African Urbanism & Architecture
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The LUDI Library on African Urbanism and Architecture is an initiative that responds to the lack of centralized information sources on the peculiar rate, style and trend of design and urbanization in the African Continent. Most literature on this subject is already widely discussed, yet they lack the continuity and cohesion necessary for a researcher’s full understanding of the subject. The project will thus involve compiling literature on the subject of African Urbanism into a platform accessible to Students, Researchers and Professionals.
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Lagos Local Government Design Guide
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The Lagos Design Guide is a project that responds to the lack of quick references to laws, policies and strategies on planning and design at the Local Government level. Most Local government officials charged with making decisions about planning and design are disadvantaged with a lack of knowledge in those fields. This project thus provides a condensed reference to laws, policies, and strategies on urban planning and design for Local Government officials in Lagos State. The project also seeks to promote and advocate for ideals of planning and design that are inclusive and sustainable. Another objective of the project is to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the Local Government level of governance.
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Valuation of Public Space in Lagos
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Data collection and accessibility to data is a problem. This hinders policy makers, technocrats as well as researchers. Urban planning can only be done from a place of understanding what is the present state and what has happened in the past. Data collection and assessment is vital for their job. This research aims to create an assessment matrix that can be used both by the public and private sector to assess public projects including parks and pedestrian infrastructure. This regulatory matrix will act as a guide to ensure that the public spaces being developed are actually beneficial to the public. It will also serve as a framework on how to collect and analyse data.
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Walkability and Bikeability at Local Government Level: Lagos Island
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With the Popo Aguda (including the Brazilian Quarter) community, we will embark on local community design and implement cost neutral interventions for a sustainable, livable and inclusive environment focusing on issues already raised by the community such as mobility challenges, health, security, lack of public space. We will also conduct a series of "citizens' events" in the Popo Aguda community where the impact of proposed or already established projects (e.g. monorail) are discussed with experts, government officials and community members, and establish and run a bike club for young women focused on training, empowerment, rights of the girl child and self-defense.
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Linear Park with a Bike Trail and Farming Opportunities
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We plan to develop a concrete action and finance pitch document of the linear park for advocacy to influence the uptake by the Lagos State Government, and start a campaign on the restoration of wetlands in Lagos State to mitigate flooding with interested local online and offline platforms interested in environmental/flooding/climate change issues.
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A Business Case for the Use of Cargo-Bikes on Lagos Island
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With the Popo Aguda (including the Brazilian Quarter) community, we will embark on local community design and implement cost neutral interventions for a sustainable, livable and inclusive environment focusing on issues already raised by the community such as mobility challenges, health, security, lack of public space. We will also conduct a series of "citizens' events" in the Popo Aguda community where the impact of proposed or already established projects (e.g. monorail) are discussed with experts, government officials and community members, and establish and run a bike club for young women focused on training, empowerment, rights of the girl child and self-defense.
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Lagos Urban Network Events
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Join us for our first Bridge Series event of the year! We are holding a Networking Session designed to be in an informal setting to allow students and young professionals to freely interact, discuss and engage.
We hope to engage participants at the session on building a career, developing skills and building a network within their field of interest through the attending group of professionals in architecture, urban activism, film & photography, technology, art, public space design, tourism, research, and writing.
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You Need to Read These
Love urban planning like we do? Check out these top Planning websites [Planetizen]
The Guardian is predicting the near demise of car-culture [Guardian]
We are increasingly living in cities of the cloud [CityLab]
Micromobility needs a shared vocabulary [The City Fix]
Parking, Parking, Parking [Smart Cities Dive]
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