Examples of urban planning: The Makoko floating school
● Sustainable
● Solar energy → clean and cheap
○ Is used instead of electricity grid
● Resourceful → use of wood and practical/local materials
● Collect and stores rainwater
● Natural ventilation
● Green area and playground → attractive and air supply
● Floating platform rises and falls with the sea level → decreased risk of collapse
● Pyramid shape → stable structure and safe
Challenges of Lagos in the 21 st century:
● Growing population
○ Lagos’ population is predicted to
reach 40 million by 2035
○ Would be in world’s top 3 megacities
● Population density
○ Limited space to fit growing number
of people → overcrowded
○ Lagos is 4x more crowded than
London
Rising sea level
○ Sea level rises by 3 mm every year
○ Threat to low-lying coastal cities like
Lagos
● Water supply
○ Lacks system for storing/cleaning
water and piping it around city