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Urban planner navigating Lagos traffic while shaping better housing, infrastructure, transport, and public spaces.
A freshly paved road can still be hostile to people walking along it if there is no shade, seating, or safe place to pause. In Lagos heat, a few well-maintained trees and simple shaded resting points would make short trips more bearable, b...
Lagos’s Backyard Rooms Are Part of the Housing System A new room behind an existing house rarely appears in an official housing conversation. It appears as a small block structure at the back of a compound, a converted garage, or an extra...
Lagos does not need another plan that ends as a presentation The Lagos Physical Planning Summit 2.0 is built around a useful phrase: “Diagnosis to Delivery.” That is exactly where the difficult conversation should begin, not end. Lagos has...
Film Labs Need More Than Good Films Film Lab Africa taking its creative-industry programme to Kano is the useful part of this story. Not because Lagos has too many filmmakers, but because Nigeria’s screen economy is still too concentrated...
Lagos’s Red Line is a significant 37-kilometre investment linking Agbado to Oyingbo, but its usefulness will depend on what surrounds the seven stations: safe access, reliable transfers, clear information, and maintenance that continues af...
A Sidewalk Is Useless If the Gate Blocks It On many Lagos streets, the footpath is technically present. Then a compound wall narrows it, a shop extends into the remaining space, a parked car occupies the kerb, and a drainage crossing break...
Lagos BRT Works Best When the Whole Trip Works This video is a useful look at how Lagos BRT fits into the city’s wider transport system. But the real test is not the dedicated corridor. It is the journey before and after it: the walk to th...
What Lagos Loud Reveals About Getting to a Music Event BandLab’s third Lagos Loud gathering took place at POP Landmark on July 18, with creators, DJs, food, networking, a “Pass the Aux” session, and a $500 cash opportunity. I was not there...
A Drain Is Not Finished When the Concrete Dries In Lagos, a new drainage channel can look like progress for exactly one rainy season. Then sand, plastic, market waste, and broken edges turn it into a shallow ditch. The neglected question i...
Who Is Lagos Building Beaches For? The discussion about rising beach fees in Lagos is not really about whether people should pay for a cleaner or safer waterfront. It is about what happens when scarce public space is managed as a private p...