Urban Informality and Infrastructure Planning: A Study of the Metropolises of Hong Kong SAR and Lagos for Sustainable Urban Design Strategies

Soyinka Oluwole Abayomi (2018)

Both developing and developed cities are facing significant challenges in sustainable development regarding economic, environmental, and infrastructure aspects. This research investigates urban informal settlement and infrastructure planning (UISIP) in the metropolises of Hong Kong and Lagos and identifies sustainable urban design principles to achieve sustainable urban development. Through adopting the concepts of urban informality, circuit of culture, pro-poor, sustainability and tactical urbanism, this study suggests that there is no significant relationship between UISIP with regard to achieving sustainable urban development in the metropolises of Hong Kong and Lagos. The study proposes a tactical urbanism approach for UISIP design, which integrates sustainable urban design and planning principles with sustainable socio-economic and environmental design strategies. The proposed design guideline outlines specific policies for reforming social, economic, and environmental design in community participatory design.