International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Developmental Problems of Public Parks and Greenery across Garden City of Nigeria

Ugwuoke Hillary¹, Ayagere Selete Ayebaemi², Amakiri-whyte Belema Henry³, Bumaa Felix Neeka^4
1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute of Management and Technology Enugu, Nigeria
^{2, 3, 4} Department of Architecture, Kenule Beeson Saro-wiwa Polytechnic Bori Nigeria

Abstract: The gatherings and health implications of public parks and greenery is of ultimate significance to the urban and suburb residents. Public parks and greenery surface difficult existing situations owing to inadequate institutional concern and failure to mete out to its roles of maintaining standard and quality public parks. The investigation of public parks and developmental problems could consequently exposed active directions to debase or upgrade of public parks, greenery and welfare of the important population. This research anchored on developmental problems of public parks and greenery across garden city of Nigeria. The study adopted random sampling techniques while data collection was held through environmental observation and validated questionnaire with a reliability value of 0.85 Cronbach alphas. A sample of 300 respondents was drawn although data analysis was based on percentage and inferential statistics of multiple regressions at 0.05 alpha level. The result revealed that public parks and greenery spaces has relative developmental problem. However, the work demonstrated that urbanization had statistical score of (t = 11.229,p = 0.000<0.05), institutional low resource base (t =7.757,p =0.000< 0.05), political instability( t = 3.982, p = 0.000< 0.05), lack of proximity (t =7.787, p = 0.001<0.05) and wide corruption( t = 3.325, p = 0.003< 0.05) each have significant relative problem and significant joint problem of F(5, 295) =244.133, R²Adj.=0.718) on public parks and greenery areas of the city. The research concluded that public parks and greenery in Port Harcourt urban possess higher relative problem while urbanization, institutional low resource base, political instability, lack of proximity and wide corruption constitute the independent and joint problems of public parks. Organisation of conferences, workshops, seminars and discussions at urban, suburbs, regional and national level can decline the problems and establish immeasurably benefits of parkson the environment.

Keywords: Public, Parks, Problems, Greenery, Garden City and Developmental

I. INTRODUCTION

The existences of urban and suburbs environs stand incomplete without functional public parks classified as a segment or component of recreational land uses. The recreational environments considered as public parks consist of spatial arrangement made for such facilities as greenery, parking spaces, playground, nature trail, reservoir, Atlantic field, basketball, tennis court, pedestrian cycle, open spaces, swimming pool, bush bar and other facilities which are publicly provided and indeed to benefit the inhabitant of a particular district or layout under institutional control.