Governance and administration of Urban Systems

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PAD 305 – Government and Administration of Urban Systems
Course Outline
The course examines the role of government in the administration of policies affecting the urban centers with particular reference to Nigeria nay Africa (this will not expressly shut out references from the Western World). Issues to be discussed include urban population problems; policy formation and implementation process, environmental control; social facilities such as housing, education, healthcare, safe water supply and welfare; policy performance and accountability; and relationship between urban government and other units of government will also be examined. We shall also examine the inadequate delivery of social services by city governments in Nigeria. In general, defining an urban area within a universal purview is a huge challenge due to a multiplicity of factors. Also, the governance and administration of areas designated as Urban in some polities suffer problems which ranges from lack of transparency and accountability in governance to under-qualified staff and administration; and the tenuous relationship (an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ dichotomy) between the urban residents and local governments.  
Topics
1.     Urban Area: The Challenge of definitions
-       Legal and Administrative Perspectives
-       Population Perspectives
-       Functional Perspective
2.     Urban – Rural Contrasts
3.     Approaches to Urban Planning - the rational-comprehensive approach, the incremental approach, the transactive approach, the communicative approach, the advocacy approach, the equity approach, the radical approach, and the humanist or phenomenological approach.
4.     The Pattern(s) of Contemporary Urbanisation
5.     Laws of Migration
6.     Urban Governance and Service Delivery
7.     Urbanisation problems in the developing world

Required Texts
1.     Ugwu S.C.: Issues in Local Government and Urban Administration in Nigeria (Academic Printing, 2000)
2.     Adamolekun L. & Co.: Local Government in West Africa since Independence (Unilag Press, 1988)
3.     Orewa G.O. and Adewumi J.B.: Local Government in Nigeria: The Changing Scene, Vol. II (Ethiope Publish, 1992)
4.      Remi Anifowose & Francis Enemvo: Element of Politics (Sam Iroanusi, 1999)

5.     Ladipo Adamolekun (ed) Public Administration in Africa (Spectrum, 2005)

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