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作者

Oluwagbemiga Paul Agboola

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.122,P.102519

语言

英文

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作者单位

Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, 34310, Turkey;Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, 34310, Turkey;School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China;School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;Dr Daniel Ibrahim Dabara School of the Built Environment, Real Estate Programme, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom;Department of Estate Management, Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State, Nigeria;Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana;Environmental Change and Governance Group (ECGG), School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada;Department of Geography, Planning, Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Academic and Students' Affairs Division, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana;Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia;School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China;Urban Mobility Institute, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China;Institute of Rail Transit, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China;Urban Geographies/Centre for Urban Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom;The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, United Kingdom

摘要

The signs and symbolic meanings of public space in Nigeria as perceived by the users relied on the existence of strong relationships between the people and their environment. This study centers on the users' articulations, opinions, and views to public space such as traditional marketplace for the flourishing and sustainable development of indigenous people in South-West, Nigeria. This study adopts quantitative and subjective ways to elicit the views and opinions’ appraisals of the marketplace users and the term marketplace as a thirdplace. The findings reveal marketplace as a place of cultural inheritance, social arena for users, aesthetically oriented zone and a thirdplace, forming an integral component for the future rural neighbourhood planning and development in Nigeria.