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Urban Problems and Economic Development in West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

R. J. Harrison Church
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The urban explosion is one of Africa's outstanding characteristics. Its many facets provoke a multitude of problems in such diverse yet interrelated fields as administrative efficiency, health control, land values and engineering, juvenile and other crime, prostitution, the provision of housing and educational facilities, efficient traffic flow, and much more.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1967 , pp. 511 - 520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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Page 514 note 1 Bascom, W., ‘Urbanization among the Yoruba’, in The American Journal of Sociology (Chicago), LX, 1955, p. 450.Google Scholar

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Page 517 note 2 Kilby, Peter, Report on Small Industries in Eastern Nigeria (Enugu, 1963).Google Scholar Kilby is also an advocate of more attention being given to agriculture than to the large towns and industries, and proposes drastic reappraisal of economic and political policies in favour of farmers; viz. his article ‘Balancing Town and Country,’ in West Africa (London), 29 08 1964.Google Scholar

Page 518 note 1 Report in West Africa, 1 July 1967.

Page 519 note 1 See SirLewis, Arthur, ‘A Review of Economic Development,’ in The American Economic Review (Menasha), LV, 2, 1965, pp. 1–16,Google Scholar and ‘Unemployment in Developing Countries,’ in The World Today (London), 01 1967, pp. 13–22Google Scholar (text of the Stevenson Memorial Lecture for 1966).

Page 520 note l Riddell, John, ‘The Housing Needs of Developing Countries: some recent trade union initiatives,’ in Civilisations (Brussels), xv, 1965, pp. 31–40.Google Scholar

Page 520 note 2 Volta Resettlement Symposium Papers (Volta River Authority, Accra, and Faculty of Architecture, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 1965).Google Scholar