![]() It is fundamentally important that open spaces within the built environment in Nigeria be created and improved to enhance the quality of the environment as well as the life of the people. Creating and developing open spaces within a community can help meet many needs such as adding to the general aesthetics, encouraging leisure activities, community interaction and cohesion, encouraging active and healthy lifestyles, preserving and putting into good use land which otherwise would have been used for unattractive purposes. Furthermore, lack of coordination of physical planning activities within major towns and cities have resulted into an unpleasant quality of the environment. With the natural areas constantly being destroyed by man's activities of building, refuse dumping, squatter settlements among others and little is being done about beautification through landscaping. ![]() Various human activities created in the quest to achieve a higher level of development, has led to the misuse of the urban open spaces in Nigeria. ![]()
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