ANALYSING THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON THE STREET OF KARU, NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA AS A STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
Author: Musa Adamu Eya*, Gobi Krishna Sinniah, Muhammad Zaly Shah
Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Published Date: 2023-08-29
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Keywords: Examining, street businesses, urban structure, right of ways, building extension.
Abstract:
One of the many human activities that have an impact on urban highways is
street vending, particularly for motorists in a country with a developing market
economy like Nigeria. The impact of human activity on urban roadways was
investigated in this study. The first part of the study evaluates the geographic
distribution of street vending activities on urban roads. The second objective compares
the relationship between land use interaction and activities related to street vending.
The study evaluates the crucial element affecting roadways using roads designated as
reservations for potential future road development and was the subject of surveys with
a purposefully selected sample of one hundred sixty questionnaires. The study found
that the current economic climate has forced many city dwellers into small-scale
businesses like street selling, hawking, and beggaring. The desire to push for the use of
more than 55% of the right of way (ROW) was influenced by human activity and the
regulatory agencies' shortcomings or incapacity to maintain regulations on human
activities taking place on urban roadways. The study asserts a significant connection
between human activity, such as street vending, building encroachment, and
government policy on urban roads. This study offers policymakers, stakeholders, and
academics concrete and abstract benefits of street vending activities as a contributor to
raising the living of standard of the country.
