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Islamic Instruments for Sustainable Urban Spatial Planning and Management
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Barau, Salisu |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This paper looks at the role of faith-influenced land use planning and management as solution to the seamless urban challenges of this century. In many developing countries master plans fail to guide institutions to engender sustainable urban environment even as environmental changes affect the quality of life. The paper posits that since urban population cannot exist in absence of qualitative natural environmental variables, then it becomes expedient to think of sustainable solutions. Islam as religion and sodal system regulates space organisation for harmonious coexistence of inhabitants and the natural habitat. This feature characterises many Muslim traditional cities before the 20 century when western planning theories and models become the brain-box of Muslim urban professionals and dream of governments. This paper examines the Islamic instruments of spatial planning and land use management which are enshrined in the concepts of harim, hima and fina. Northern Nigerian city of Kano is used as example for cross-examining these concepts in engendering urban spatial sustainability. The research couples analysis of images, interviews, field assessments and literature review to prop its findings. For many centuries, Kano city grew steadily with passion for the principles of sustainability which are understandable and implementable by grassroots and those in the power towers. At the moment, the three instruments are weak; hence, the city grows in pains of ecological imbalances and couple of land use challenges. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC22721.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
