Evaluation of Green Space Utilization Pattern in Private Universities in South Western Nigeria
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2024-12
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Lead City University, Ibadan
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Green Space (GS) is any open piece of land developed, undeveloped and is accessible to the public, it is a common feature noticeable in any university community; providing a sense of direction, integrating and organizing places and elements. However, empirical studies on GS utilization pattern in the Nigerian universities are underrepresented in literature. Therefore, the study was designed to evaluate the pattern of green space utilization across private universities in Southwest Nigeria with a view to identifying its impact on campus scape/image. The study was a cross-sectional survey conducted in six states and universities in southwest Nigeria, namely Redeemer (Osun State), Afe Babalola (Ekiti State), Covenant (Ogun State), Elizade (Ondo State), Caleb (Lagos State) and Ajayi Crowther (Oyo State) university. The data used for the study were sourced through questionnaire administration from selected case studies involving 397 respondents. Descriptive statistics, factor and synchronic (GIS) analyses were used to analyze the data. The result showed that green space availability is relatively high in the selected private universities in Southwest Nigeria, thus, this selected university have provided conducive physical environment for their students. Furthermore, majority of the respondents indicated that the physical condition of available GS is also very high. Thus, it was discovered that the pattern of GS utilization was majorly passive as respondents’ duration of stay are usually very short across the study area. The most critical factors to the utilization of university GS were identified to be social and design factors. Furthermore, the study revealed that availability and utilization contributed to the outlook of the university in terms of form and aesthetic. Therefore, it is recommended that to have active utilization pattern, focus of universities must be on the social need of the users and the design of the GS provided to ease accessibility.
Keywords: Availability; Green spaces; campus scape; space identity; utilization pattern; Survey
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Availability, Green spaces, campus scape, space identity, utilization pattern, Survey
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kate Turabian