Identification of the Cost Components of Architectural Landscaping in Residential Accommodations in the Enugu, Nigeria’s Urban Areas

As the world particularly, the Western world develops; the developing countries are catching up with their growth pattern especially, in sustainable housing provisions. Unfortunately, this growth in housing provisions are creating stress and abandonment in the Enugu urban areas old housing stocks as newly architectural landscaping neighborhood are attracting the youth and affluent. This study aimed to identify the cost components of architectural landscaping in residential areas, that warrant the movement and abandonment of the old Enugu urban housing settlements into the new and more landscaped housing settlements. This study adopted quantitative and qualitative research methods that investigated the behavior of the Enugu urban area residents in dealing with their housing demands and interests. The quantitative and qualitative dynamic capacity of the central areas raises the expectation for their feasibility if the provision of services to the population is at a rate that assures the necessary facilities will be present at all times. Past housing programmes were not successfully implemented for many reasons. But fundamental among them was the fact that they were not tailored to a target population’s income level and the household’s ability to pay. The programmes were based more on ‘needs’ translated into arbitrary (and unaffordable) standards rather than on “affordability” and willingness to pay. It recommends that the players in the building industry be made aware of the relevance of the architectural landscape in creating sustainable development for users in residential neighborhoods.