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    Proposed Shopping Mall for CECI Supermarket Nig, Limited in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria (An Assessment of Circulation in a Public Place Design, Case Study of Shopping Mall in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.)
    (Lead City University, 2023-12) Ogechukwu Emmanuel ODOR
    Consumption of goods and services are phenomenon required by men around the world to satisfy their daily needs which has transformed into a particular centre to seek such goods and service. Hence shopping mall as of the places where citizen by all classes of people regardless of their ability, age, race, ethnicity, social-economic level has access to such goods and services usually lead into a centre of high activities culminating in high human (pedestrians) and vehicular movements. This movements usually generate congestion when they are not properly organized. Most of existing shopping in a case study area are faced with circulation challenges in both exterior and interior parts of the building. However, there is need to mitigate such problems by proffer architectural measures to deploy towards enhancing them. Ibadan in Oyo State as one of the larger cities in west African was taken as the study area and other nearby cities such as Lagos, Osogbo (Osun State) and other shopping mall (public places) outside the county of the study area may be considered as a representative in relating to challenges addressed. The aim of this research design thesis is to assess and evaluate the circulation systems in shopping malls in the study area. Selected international and local shopping malls are used as the case study, descriptively analyzed according to the major subject matters and the result of the observation shows merit and demerits of universal design of malls across the globe. Hence provide a comfortable shopping environs for shoppers. Keywords: Circulation (Vertical and Horizontal), Architecture of Public Space, Accessibility, Shopping Mall Classification. Word Count: 262