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 Volume 6, Issue 7 (July 2019), Pages: 68-76

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Evaluating suitability for sustainable urban growth of Abuja by using MCE and GIS

 Author(s): Jaafar Abdullahi Shuaibu, Can Kara *

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Architecture, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2121-9442

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.07.009

 Abstract:

Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria was created when Lagos failed to function as the Federal Capital due to the resultant urban problems as a result of land availability. Currently, the rate of implementation of the master plan and urban development is outpaced by the rate of urban growth due to urbanization, as a result exerting a lot of strain on the urban facilities of the city which affects the life of the residents. This study is aimed at identifying a suitable site for future sustainable urban growth in Abuja. The study evaluates urban growth policies namely; social equity, compact growth and environmental protection into spatial layers as the framework for multi-criteria evaluation using the geographical information system. The spatial layers are the distance to road, distance to the central area, distance to educational facilities, distance to green/open spaces, soil, slope, vegetation, natural features, and pollution sites were evaluated and prioritized as per judgment of relevant experts. The influencing weights among the layers were computed using Analytical Hierarchy Process. The overall Consistency Ratio (CR) of the module was 0.04 and fulfilled the tolerable threshold (i.e., CR ≤ 0.1). The Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) function of ArcGIS model builder has been applied to generate a suitability map. The map clearly presents the areas that are suitable for future sustainable urban development and also areas that are not, reducing the possibility of future disaster. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Abuja, Geographical information systems, Multi criteria evaluation, Sustainable urban growth, Analytical hierarchy process, Land suitability

 Article History: Received 13 November 2018, Received in revised form 5 April 2019, Accepted 9 May 2019

 Acknowledgement:

The authors would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge each and every person that contributed in one way or the other towards this research. We appreciate all your assistance and we are deeply grateful.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Shuaibu JA and Kara C (2019). Evaluating suitability for sustainable urban growth of Abuja by using MCE and GIS. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(7): 68-76

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