Urban Public Buildings and Accessibility Challenges in Nigeria

Felix Neeka Bumma, Selete Ayebaemi Ayagere, Ubani Princewill and Amakiri-Whyte Belema Henry
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Felix Neeka Bumma: Department of Architecture, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Bori Nigeria
Selete Ayebaemi Ayagere: Department of Architecture, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Bori Nigeria
Ubani Princewill: Department of Urban And Regional Planning, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Bori Nigeria
Amakiri-Whyte Belema Henry: Department of Architecture, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Bori Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2020, vol. 7, issue 5, 209-215

Abstract: The trends of public buildings accessibility and circulation challenges confronting persons with disability are contemporary concerns in the focus of environmental experts internationally. This is relevant given the restriction implications of disabled persons on public buildings. On the other hand, this seems not to be so in developed countries going by both practice and investigation consideration. The research consequently examined challenges for persons with disabilities across urban public buildings in Niger delta. The research considered environmental observation and designed questionnaire methods for data acquisition whereas standard deviation (STD) principal components analysis (PCA) and Pearson correlation coefficient were the methodical tools employed. The result established that school buildings (0.50), police station accounted for (0.72) and courthouses (0.62) etc with restriction factors for persons with disabilities in Niger delta urban environs of Nigeria. In furtherance, institutional buildings (20%), legal building (13%), transportation building (12%), medical building (10%) and banking/recreational buildings (7%) were the classified public buildings. However, The research demonstrated that there was a weak negative relationship between public buildings and wheelchair ramp at (r = -0.212, p

Date: 2020
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