ROAD DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN EXPANSION: THE CASE OF ILORIN, NIGERIA

This study is concerned with road development and
urban expansion in Ilorin. The main objectives include
the examination of the pattern and structure of road
network evolution·in Ilorin and how they have affected
the changing nature of the morphology of .the city; the
identification of factors that help to explain the
changing morphology of the city; the use of such factors
to build a mode! that con be used to determine the nature
and-direction of urban morphology given specific transport
network structure.
To achieve these objectives, the study depended on
a comprehensive data set. The data collected include
data from aerial photographs, socio-economic data, traffic·
surveys and data from records of ministries, parastatals