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Lagos Urban Planning: Debunking Myths & Stereotypes All around the world, what constitutes a livable city is constantly in flux, usually following new cultural, social, or technological trends and discoveries. Our engagement with people on new ways of thinking about Lagos made one thing clear: government, civil society, and the public had been in thrall to decades-old myths and stereotypes. Generally, it has been convenient to lay the blame for urban dysfunction on certain, usually disadvantaged groups of people within society, leading to a mismatch between the solutions proffered and the real

  1. Transportation - How can it be sustainable

    12/01/2022

    Transportation - How can it be sustainable

    Transportation - How can it be sustainable with Yinka Jones (Lagos Urban Development Initiative (LUDI)

    45 min
  2. Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (PDP 2019 Senatorial candidate – Lagos West)

    01/19/2021

    Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (PDP 2019 Senatorial candidate – Lagos West)

    All around the world, what constitutes a livable city is constantly in flux, usually following new cultural, social, or technological trends and discoveries. Our engagement with people on new ways of thinking about Lagos made one thing clear: government, civil society, and the public had been in thrall to decades-old myths and stereotypes. Generally, it has been convenient to lay the blame for urban dysfunction on certain, usually disadvantaged groups of people within society, leading to a mismatch between the solutions proffered and the real problems. The result is that those solutions have consistently failed. Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking.

    29 min
  3. Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Adebowale Jeff Johnson (ADP Senatorial Candidate – Lagos East)

    01/19/2021

    Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Adebowale Jeff Johnson (ADP Senatorial Candidate – Lagos East)

    All around the world, what constitutes a livable city is constantly in flux, usually following new cultural, social, or technological trends and discoveries. Our engagement with people on new ways of thinking about Lagos made one thing clear: government, civil society, and the public had been in thrall to decades-old myths and stereotypes. Generally, it has been convenient to lay the blame for urban dysfunction on certain, usually disadvantaged groups of people within society, leading to a mismatch between the solutions proffered and the real problems. The result is that those solutions have consistently failed. Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking.

    22 min
  4. Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Deji Akinpelu

    01/19/2021

    Debunking Myths & STEREOTYPES: BOOK REVIEW with Deji Akinpelu

    All around the world, what constitutes a livable city is constantly in flux, usually following new cultural, social, or technological trends and discoveries. Our engagement with people on new ways of thinking about Lagos made one thing clear: government, civil society, and the public had been in thrall to decades-old myths and stereotypes. Generally, it has been convenient to lay the blame for urban dysfunction on certain, usually disadvantaged groups of people within society, leading to a mismatch between the solutions proffered and the real problems. The result is that those solutions have consistently failed. Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking.

    25 min
  5. Myth: Street trading is the cause of traffic problems in Lagos with Olajumoke Akiode

    01/19/2021

    Myth: Street trading is the cause of traffic problems in Lagos with Olajumoke Akiode

    Street trading and hawking are not peculiar to urban Lagos. These activities often arise from socioeconomic realities essential to the proper functioning of society. Developing nations with large informal economies tend to have pronounced levels of street trading, which is a major source of jobs for the growing urban poor. Street trading and hawking that threatens mobility are often the consequences of policy failures. Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking.

    27 min
  6. Myth: Land acquisition is the best investment with Amamchukwu Okafor

    01/14/2021

    Myth: Land acquisition is the best investment with Amamchukwu Okafor

    The general opinion that land ownership is the best investment is not only a myth, but a dangerous concoction that has led to land grabbing and speculation, fraud, family-land feud, perpetual tenant-landlord tension, and suboptimal use of land resources. On aggregate, it has perverse incentives. Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking.

    29 min
  7. Myth: Infrastructure means development with Taibat Lawanson

    11/30/2020

    Myth: Infrastructure means development with Taibat Lawanson

    At a special session of the National Economic Council in March 2018, Bill Gates dropped a bombshell. The Nigerian Federal Government Economic Recovery and Growth plan was flawed, he claimed, because it paid much less attention to human capacity development than it did to infrastructure. Gates' logic was simple: “to anchor the economy over the long term, investment in infrastructure and competitiveness must go hand-in-hand with investments in the people.” Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking

    17 min
  8. Myth: Cart pushers are a menace to the society with Dr. Temilade Sesan

    11/17/2020

    Myth: Cart pushers are a menace to the society with Dr. Temilade Sesan

    In 2007, the Lagos State government promulgated a law banning the activities of cart pushers, the ubiquitous informal workers who go from door to door collecting and evacuating cartloads of waste from many neighborhoods (poor and rich ones alike) around the city. The prohibitive law completely overlooks the fact that cart pushers have stepped in to fill an essential gap in the formal waste collection system: Read more here: researchinlagos.org/lup_debunking

    29 min
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Lagos Urban Planning: Debunking Myths & Stereotypes All around the world, what constitutes a livable city is constantly in flux, usually following new cultural, social, or technological trends and discoveries. Our engagement with people on new ways of thinking about Lagos made one thing clear: government, civil society, and the public had been in thrall to decades-old myths and stereotypes. Generally, it has been convenient to lay the blame for urban dysfunction on certain, usually disadvantaged groups of people within society, leading to a mismatch between the solutions proffered and the real

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  • Creator
    Rethinking Lagos
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    13
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