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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN URBAN MANAGEMENT
Philosophy Introduction Traditional settlements all over the world were certainly not cities. They were much smaller communities, limited in population and activities, which made them somewhat simple to manage. Today and in the foreseeable future, more and more settlements all over the world will be towns and cities, which will require better skills and proper training to manage. More and more people now live in the urban areas. In no distant future, we may all be living in cities and mega cities. The present situation is such that very many of the people charged with the responsibility of managing our cities are casual city managers: They are untrained, unskilled and consequently less efficient city managers. Some rule the cities by mere creeds passed on through family lineage, which has since proved to be rather deficient. Indeed, present city managers are certainly unprepared for the jobs they are doing. Since our future may be highly dependent on these ad-hoc city managers, it is a matter of utmost importance and urgency to provide the relevant opportunities for training and retraining present and future urban managers. The Post Graduate Programmes in Urban Management is a step in this direction. The philosophy of the Urban Management Programme of the Federal University of Technology Yola is to produce competent, resourceful, accountable, responsible and environmentally conscious decision makers for towns and cities in Nigeria and in other countries of the world. It is therefore the aim of the Post Graduate Diploma programme to train erstwhile non-professional city managers in the requisite theories and practice of contemporary city management and to prepare the intended professionals to acquire necessary skills in sustainable revenue generation for developmental purposes, infrastructure management as well as the sustenance of peace, progress, growth and development in the cities of today and tomorrow. PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES The objectives to achieve the above-stated goals include: a. to develop students’ understanding of Urban Management through exposure to theories, methods and techniques for planning, designing and managing the urban environmental dynamics. b. to assist the students to acquire constructive understanding of the relation between the social, economic, technological and legislative framework of society within the physical and other integrative social and economic planning processes requiring a comprehensive education and training in the planning, designing and management of the total environment both from theoretical and practical perspectives. c. to provide students with varied practical experience of emerging urban management problems derivable from interactive training fora, case studies and educational visits, and d. to encourage the students to develop interest in particular urban management skills and research methods.
TARGET Those targeted for these programmes include: a. Municipal infrastructure, utilities and services staffers as well as other professionals having major roles to play in urban management matters. b. Local government administrators and politicians of all grades. c. Members of the traditional councils and community opinion leaders. d. The military, police and other para-military officials. e. Educators and researchers in urban management and other related fields. All other qualified members of the society who have interest in undergoing a course of training in Urban Management. The programme will cover formal lectures, Seminars, individual and group assignments, field studies and field data collection and analysis. There will be a project dissertation to be examined through a Seminar and Oral Examination by a Panel of External and Internal Examiners. Duration of the Programme: 12 months ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Candidates to be admitted into the Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Management programme must have the following qualifications in any of the discipline in these main areas: Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Social Sciences and the Humanities: a. A relevant degree from the Federal University of Technology, Yola or any other recognised University with a minimum of the Third Class level; or b. A relevant Higher National Diploma with the Upper Credit level. Holders of relevant Higher National Diploma at the Lower Credit level with at least five years of post qualification working experience may also apply; or c. Any other qualification acceptable to the Senate of the Federal University of Technology, Yola. All Nigerian applicants must submit evidence of having undergone the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Scheme or present an official exemption there from Job and Career Prospects At the end of the course, holders of the PGD in Urban Management of the Federal University of Technology, Yola shall be able to: a. Work in the various Municipal and Local Government Councils as higher technical personnel in Urban Management. b. Work for LGAs, States and Federal Government agencies and parastatals as technical managers of urban infrastructure, utilities and services units. c. Work in consultancy firms involved in community development and urban management. d. Direct maintenance works at the township level. e. Assist in designing appropriate and efficient security measures for cities and municipal areas. f. Budget, generate funds and efficiently manage municipal accounts. g. Develop a rich and resourceful databank for decision making for urban development using appropriate computer programs. h. Assist in defining roles and responsibilities for all other actors in the urbanscape towards the achievement of a sustainable urban environment. i. Assist in developing pragmatic but highly efficient urban management structure for city-based institutions, agencies and parastatals. j. Make decisions with environmental consciousness on city development and revenue generation projects. k. Mobilise NGOs, CBOs and other citizen-oriented agencies to partake as responsible stakeholders in city development process. l. Undertake a higher degree programme at the Masters Degree level in relevant fields especially in Urban Management and Infrastructure Development bias in Urban and Regional Planning, having obtained an acceptable pass level in the Post Graduate Diploma examinations. i) Planning and Design Studios ii) Post Graduate Computer Laboratories iii) Departmental and University Library iv) University cyber café v) Lecture Rooms course outline course description COURSE OUTLINE For POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN URBAN MANAGEMENT First Semester
Second Semester
Course DescriptionUM601: URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT (2.0 Units) Land as nature’s gift but under man’s domain traditionally or legally. Title to land. Land documents and simple elements of land law. Value of land and diverse uses of land. Principles of landuse design; residential, commercial, and institutional planning standards. Case studies on land matters. Land management principles in the past, for the present and in the future. UM602: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT APPRECIATION (2.0 Units) The concept of Environment as man’s commonwealth requiring jealous protection. The genesis of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the need for EIA. Illustrations from diverse developmental projects including oil and gas industries, agricultural projects, dams, breweries as well as small/medium scale industries. The search for a more responsive measure of standard of living outside GDP, GNP, GNI etc. The EIA process and case studies. Emphasis of this course to be on the need for development proposals to be subjected to EIA before approval for implementation. UM603: URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROL (2.0 Units) Planning and management related and differentiated. Physical development planning and the existing planning laws. The concept of development and sustainable development. The city plan making process. Contraventions of City planning provisions and the various punitive measures. Stop orders and police powers. Planners’ protection amidst occupational hazards, compensations, renewal, demolition orders and resettlement planning. UM604: COLLABORATION & PARTICIPATORY STUDIES (2.0 Units) The need for public participation in the development process. Levels of participation including information, affiliation, collaboration, cooperation, and partnership. Stakeholdership. Stakeholder’s roles, responsibilities and benefits. Nature of communities. Motivation, mobilization and catalyzation of communities. Initiatives. Community institutions. Community Based Organisation. Community based approach to development. Counterpart funding arrangements: its benefits, problems, and ways forward. Sourcing, securing and managing international development aids. City to city cooperation (networking). Practical tasks on live collaborative/participatory proposal. UM605: URBAN TRANSPORTATION (2.0 Units) Fundamentals of urban transportation. The urban passenger, his needs and the available transportation modes to meet the needs. Urban transportation infrastructure: roads, rails, canals, airports and pipelines. Road network and land use; road congestion issues and trip generation/trip attraction. Traffic management and the roles of associated agencies and personnel. Assessment of Urban Mass Transit Schemes and private/public transportation outfits in Nigeria. Transportation organisation management. Transportation policies and programs. General safety issues in urban transportation. Practical project on alternative solutions to identified urban transportation problems. UM606: SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (2 Units) The basis of the sustainability concept. Economic infrastructure: roads/rails/canals/airports; electricity, telecommunication and water supply infrastructure. The demand for these infrastructure and the supply as well as maintenance. The social infrastructure: health, education and information dissemination facilities, as well as fire and postal services. Capital input on economic infrastructure to drive home real economic reasoning in allocating and sustaining these infrastructure. Role of government and institutions in the realistic strategies for infrastructure financing and structures for user-paying approach: Metering, pre-paid devices, tolls etc. Place of Health Insurance Schemes, Education Trust Funds etc in social infrastructure sustenance. Practical internship in selected institutions to study need, cost, supply, capital input, returns, organisation and recommendation for specific infrastructure. UM607: URBAN DATABANK DEVELOPMENT & GIS APPLICATIONS (2.0 Units) The essence of city databank for modern rational decision-making. Application of contemporary information technology tools (particularly GIS packages) for sourcing and safekeeping city-relevant data including demographic and civic registration data, employment, schooling, health, legal and all other useful city information. Relationship between city characteristics and geographical maps/plans. Research methods in Urban Management. Questionnaire design for specific data sourcing, data collection, analysis and presentation techniques. Questionnaire design for specific data sourcing. The possibility of updating/retrieval of needed information from city databank. Treatment of classified data and restricted access to city databank. UM608: LAW MAKING & THE RULE OF LAW (2.0 Units) The Law, Decree, Edit, Bye Law, Order and Regulation as different degrees of city regulating ordinances. Their hierarchy and the law making process. Citizens’ rights, responsibilities and privileges. The due process on city affairs and the judicial process. Specific cases of private land ownership and city land needs for public uses. Principle of compensation. Tenants and the Law. Citizens’ participation in law making and the judicial process. UM609: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT (2.0 Units) Meaning and aspects of Management. Evolution of management laws and theories. Management functions. Decision making functions. Organisational structures, aims and goals. Fundamentals of organisational change. Staffing, performance appraisal, training/retraining, motivation and discipline. Centralisation, decentralisation and delegation principles. Leadership development. The committee system. Management ethics and social responsibilities. Management problems in Nigeria and solutions. The Nigerian environment with particular reference to management. Planning and Management: Why we plan, types of plan: Short, Medium and Long terms. The Planning process. Why plans fail. UM610: URBAN SECURITY (2.0 Units) The concept of safety. City security apparatus: the police, the military and para-military agencies; efficacy of the vigilante arrangements. Slums and crime relationships. Efficiency of the city security apparatus. Security consciousness, crime prevention, peace enforcement and the rights of the accused. The court, adjudication of justice and the prisons. Occupational hazards and the rights of workers. Road safety and the enforcement of traffic regulations. UM611: LOCAL & MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION (2.0 Units) The concept of grass root democracy and citizenship participation in the development process. Structure of Local and Municipal administration. Roles, responsibilities and relationships of desk officers at the different levels in the structure of governments at the local level. Relationship of the local administration with the State and Federal administrations. Local Government financing. Specific roles of the Local Governments in the Nigerian Constitution and development implications. The Debate of traditional council as emerging 4th level of government in Nigeria. UM612: URBAN CONFLICTS & CONFLICT RESOLUTION The conflict concept. Causes, effects and prescriptions to prevent urban conflicts. Frontiers. Trade and professional conflicts. Causes, effects, prevention and controlling rallies, public processions, demonstrations and riots. Management of urban crises, civil disobedience, parallel government, insurgence and insurrection. The concepts and fundamental basis of accord, roadmap, truce, treaties, ceasefire and resolutions. Contemporary issues in urban conflict resolutions including ethno-religious grouping, minorities in relegated dispositions, indigenes and settlers dichotomy, activities of the Public Complaints Commission, Boundaries Commission, Civil Liberty Organisations, Rent Tribunals, and Industrial Arbitration Panels. UM613: COMMUNITY REVENUE SOURCING & PUBLIC ACCOUNTING (2.0 Units) Near-exhaustive identification of possible sources of income for the city administration. Statutory sources of city revenue. Taxation principles, forms of taxes, levies, contributions, investments etc. Banking and bank loans; stock market and capital market, collaterals etc. Public accounts: simple income and expenditure accounts; Cashbook; Audit principles; Auditors reports and mechanism for fraud elimination from city accounts. UM614: FUTURE CITIES AND ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES (2.0 Units) The challenges of future technological capabilities and future city population stress on the available resources. Challenges of automation and computer based possibilities to employment in the cities and the concept of urban poor. Challenges of servicing skyscrapers; land requirements in future cities and possible solutions far in advance. Demographic prescriptions aimed at future city management possibilities. UM615: SEMINAR ON URBAN INSTITUTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES (2.0 Units) A student based feedback course where the student presents an independent paper on selected city institution and the responsibilities of such institution in the context of city management. Special emphasis will be demanded of the student on very specific recommendations on how to improve the input of such institutions, agencies or parastatals to the entire urban management process. UM616: SEMINAR ON URBAN UTILITIES AND SERVICES MAINTENANCE (2.0 Units) A feedback course in which the student presents an independent paper on selected city utilities/services institution and the maintenance practices in such organisation in the context of urban management. Special emphasis will be demanded of the student on very specific recommendations on how to improve the input of such utilities/services institution to the entire urban management process. UM621: URBAN POPULATION DYNAMICS (2.0 Units) Urbanisation: nature, trends and patterns in developing countries. Rural-urban migration and urbanisation. Relationship between urbanisation, industrialisation, transportation and modernisation. Policies and strategies in planning with regards to urbanisation in less developed countries. Planning standards and subdivision control; land policies/ownership pattern. The city as a system. Mathematical modelling of structure systems. Landuse estimation and projection methods. UM622: URBANSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT (2.0 Units) Landscape planning in the context of overall environmental landuse planning. Evaluation and use of natural and artificial landscape elements. Aesthetics principles of landscaping, standards, specifications and materials. Practical projects on selected landscape sets (parks, gardens, boulevards, urban streams, courtyards, etc.). Values, forces and institutions, shaping urban form. Principles of urban design, space organization. Scale, rhythm, balance, variety etc. Understanding of emerging urban design realities in Nigerian cities. Images of cities. The search for meaningful community form. UM623: SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS (2.0 Units) The historical perspectives of the urban core, the ghetto and slums. The urban poor and destitute. Urban renewal as a technique for improving living conditions. Cost and benefits of urban renewal schemes. Economic and social consideration for urban renewal. Management of urban renewal schemes. Refugee camp management and principles of administration of welfare and relief items. UM624: TECHNOLOGY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (2.0 Units) Traditional beliefs, Taboos, Science, Engineering and Technology in the human settlements. Technology transfer, Appropriate technology, Technology and culture, Technology and society. High and low impact technologies. Technology and development: blessing or curse. Advantages and limitations of each type of technology in urban settlements. UM625: PUBLIC WASTE MANAGEMENT (2.0 Units) Waste generation, collection and disposal in a typical urban environment. The waste cycle in a residential landuse: solid and liquid wastes. Design and management of sewers and treatment of sewage. The management of solid waste from collection to disposal. Recycling. Public Health laws and their application in the urban environmental. Case studies in different land uses in the urban environment. UM626: INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE (2.0 Units) Planning consideration and design standards for public utilities services such as drainage, electricity, water, sewage, telephone etc. The concept of maintenance. Maintenance practices: Preventive, Corrective, Eliminative, Predictive, Overhaul, Routine and Planned maintenance. Citizens’ attitude to urban infrastructure maintenance in Nigeria. Case studies and prescriptions for efficient and effective infrastructure maintenance. Quacks and their activities in infrastructure facilities maintenance. Problems of maintenance. UM697: PROJECT I (2.0 Units) A supervised research project that must contribution to knowledge in general and Urban Management in particular. A formal research proposal formulation course where student shows ability to identify urban management issues, present a research design and theoretical basis of the work. UM698: PROJECT II (4.0 Units) Continuation of UM697 (Project I). The course consummates the programme when the project is completed, a seminar presented and the final internal/external examinations conducted. back to top back to School of Postgraduate
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