Tunde Agbola’s research while affiliated with University of Ibadan and other places

... Landlords are legally restricted to the amount of rent they can charge for their property, the yield contemplated by an investor will be dependent on the: age, location/locality, type of tenant, condition of property and also, whether the property is subject to rent control (Alabi, 2012, Gilbert, 2008. Agbola and Jinadu (1997) and Mabogunje (1992) asserted that most urban cities in Nigeria experiences rapid urban growth resulting from industrialization, technological advancement and rural-urban migration. The resultant effect is that the quality of the urban environment is compromised (due to pressure on the available infrastructure), there by breeding problems associated with urban slums where visible forms of antisocial behaviour and criminal damage to public and private properties is the order of the day, these in turn negatively affects the value of properties in the area (Agbola, 1987;Gibbons, 2004;Oyebanji, 2003;Adegoke, 2003). ...

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Proceedings of the WABER 2012 Conference

... The purpose of the slum profile was to assess the ongoing processes of gentrification and identify its driving factors. Informed by earlier studies, e.g., [15,[84][85][86][87], we, therefore, collected data about the physical characteristics, available facilities, land prices and rents, housing types, location characteristics (e.g., closeness to open markets, industrial land use, different income residential areas, roads, government buildings, etc.), clearance history, transformation process, etc. in each slum. A buffer of 200 m was created around the boundaries of the 42 slums to identify some of the aforementioned locational characteristics. ...

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Exploring Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Gentrification Processes in Intracity Slums in the Lagos Megacity