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    • br Review of related literature br Study area Akure is

    2018-10-29


    Review of related literature
    Study area Akure is the capital city of Ondo State in southwest Nigeria. It is a medium-sized city with a first of 360,268 according to the 2006 National Population and Housing Census (Federal Republic of Nigeria, FRN, 2009). With a 3% yearly increase, the population of the city in 2016 reached 484,170. With population increase, the challenges in housing are expected to increase as well. Akure is located about 311km northeast of Lagos and is about 370m above sea level. The state has been classified as an oil-producing state, and Akure has been classified as a Millennium Development City. All these factors influence the population growth of the city.
    Conceptual framework Figure 2 shows the conceptual framework of this study. The study conceptualized that the levels of residents’ participation in house design influence residential satisfaction. However, several attributes of participation in house design were used in this study. The levels of participation in several attributes of house design include participation in the general house design, development of the brief, arrangement of interior spaces, deciding the number of bedrooms, sizes of spaces, building materials, and finishing materials. Residential satisfaction with house design was used as the dependent variable, and participation in several attributes of house design were the independent variables. The study hypothesized that several variables of residents’ participation in house design influence the levels of residential participation.
    Methodology As aforementioned, the levels of participation defined Choguill (1996) were modified for this study. The modified levels in ascending order are self-management (1; lowest), conspiracy (2), informing (3), diplomacy/dissimulation (4), conciliation (5), partnership (6), and empowerment (7; highest). These items denote how the levels of participation in several attributes of house design were defined in this study. In Choguill׳s study (1996), diplomacy and dissimulation are two different levels. However, in this research, they were used as a single level to suit the study area because of their similarities, in which case residents are made to believe that they influence decisions that had been made by others. The respondents were asked to select the option that corresponds to their level of participation in the different attributes of house design. The levels of residential satisfaction were defined as very dissatisfied, dissatisfied, neutral, satisfied, and very satisfied. The respondents were asked to select the option that corresponds to their level of satisfaction with different attributes of the house. The study area includes the transitional and peripheral zones of Akure as defined by Owoeye and Omole (2012) (Figure 3). Owoeye and Omole developed these concentric zones by applying the Burgess theory of concentric zones to Akure. Zone 1 is the core of Akure and is characterized as a slum; through spontaneous traditional developments, it has been fully developed for several decades. This zone was excluded because the majority of the buildings in this zone are likely to have been inherited. Therefore, its residents may not be able to provide the required information about the design of the houses as required in this research. Next to this is Zone 2, which is the transitional zone. Zone 3 is the peripheral zone and is far from the core of the city. This study is limited to buildings located in the transitional and peripheral concentric zones of the city because housing developments in these zones are recent, and the residents are likely to provide all the information required for this research. Figure 3 also shows the locations of the areas in the concentric zones that comprise the study area (represented with large dots). The mean satisfaction scores (MSSs) generated through a weighted mean are average values; instead of each data point contributing equally to the final mean, several data points contribute more “weights” than others do (Theme Horse, 2016). The MSSs were used to rank the attributes of satisfaction with the house. The attributes high on the ranking are the ones that the respondents were highly satisfied with, whereas the ones low on the ranking are the ones the respondents were less satisfied with. The formula used to calculate the weighted mean iswhere ∑ is the sum of all the points, w is the weights, and x is the values.