Abstract

With emerging environmental challenges facing the global society since the 20th century, most countries of the developed world have adapted to more pragmatic land use planning and environmental management strategies for sustainable urban land use development. However, Nigeria like most other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are tied to the out dated modernist top –bottom land use planning procedures that are counter- productive to sustainable urban development and environmental management. This paper explores the inadequacies of the existing approaches to urban land use planning in Nigeria and advocates the need for an integrated approach that is interactive and participatory for sustainable urban development and environmental management in growing cities of Nigeria and the developing world