Department of Urban and Regional Planning

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning was formally established as a separate department in May 1990 as one of the five member departments of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Dr. Brown Ibama

Ag. Head of Department

Urban And Regional Planning

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning was formally established as a separate department in May 1990 as one of the five member-departments of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.

Nonetheless, Urban and Regional Planning was one of the disciplines within the Department of Environmental Sciences in the School of Engineering in 1977, and became a division of the department of Architecture and Town Planning created, in 1982 in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.

The Urban and Regional Planning Programme started as a two year University Diploma course in 1977. In 1982, the four year degree programme leading to the award of B. Tech degree in Town Planning was introduced. But now, Urban and Regional Planning is a five year degree programme with B. Tech and this is to qualify students as Town Planners.

The Diploma programme was phased out from the Department at the end of the 1989/90 academic session.

Staff List in the Department

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

STRUCTURE OF THE UNIT

Dean Faculty Of Agriculture

Head Of Department Of Animal Science

Secretary Departmental Board / Academic Staff

Technologist / Professors

Administrative Officer Readers

Messenger

Cleaner

Senior Lecturer

Lecturer I

Lecturer II

Assistant Lecturers

Graduate Assistants

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PROGRAMMES

The Urban and Regional programme is designed to equip students with qualitative, quantitative and design skills so that they become efficient and functional physical planners; FIRST TO DEAL WITH THE PECULIARITIES OF THE Niger Delta environment and then society in general. To this end, the programme incorporates special course in Coastal Zone Management and Disaster Risk Management.

Urban and Regional (or physical) planning is concerned with change in the physical environment. The analysis of such change also falls within the province of other applied scientists (including geographers, sociologists, etc.).

However, the distinctive feature of urban and regional planning is that it does not set out merely to analyse change but also actively engages in its prevention, control or promotion. Urban and regional planning is therefore mainly prescriptive in orientation.

OBJECTIVE

This programme aims at producing competent professionals who should be able to direct the following operations:

(i) Preparation of Development plans for towns, villages, and regions.

(ii)Preparation of town expansion schemes.

(iii)Control of development.

(iv)Preparation of Site Layout Plans for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational and other uses.

(v)Preparation of schemes for urban renewal.

(vi)Carrying out of feasibility, impact, and socio-economic studies in relation to proposed development projects.

(vii)Carrying out of research into the problems of the physical environment to provide a basis for policy formulation.

Staffs

Staff of Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Name	Role	Rank / designation	Area of expertise	Email
Amadi Eyiyie Amadi	Higher Executive Officer	Higher Executive Officer	—	—
David Beauty Chika	Principal Confidential Secretary	Principal Confidential Secretary	—	[email protected]
Dr. Brown Ibama	Staff	—	—	—
Dr. V. C. OBINNA	Senior Lecturer	Senior Lecturer	Housing and Social Impact Assessment	[email protected]
Johnson Jukume	Principal Executive Officer	Principal Executive Officer	—	[email protected]
Mr. F. C. WACHUKWU	Lecturer II	Lecturer II	Environmental Planning, Recreation Planning and Environmental Management, Marine Spatial Planning	[email protected]
Mr. G. E. NKWO	Senior Lecturer	Senior Lecturer	Transport Planning and Management	[email protected]
Obia Godswill	Technologist	Technologist	—	[email protected]
Ojule Benson Igwe	Administrative Officer II	Administrative Officer II	—	[email protected]
Oruwari Builder Boma	Technologist	Technologist	—	[email protected]
Prof. O. B. OWEI	Professor	Professor	Urban Management, Planning Law and Theory	[email protected]
Stanley N. Amaewhule	Administrative Officer II	Administrative Officer II	—	[email protected]
TPl. Dr. L. O. AKUE	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Land Use/Environmental Management, SIA, Disaster Risk Assessment	[email protected]
Tpl. (Ms). J. O. EMERUEM	Senior Lecturer	Senior Lecturer	Tourism, Land Use and Environmental Management	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. (Mrs). E. N. Anthony Le-ol	Senior Lecturer	Senior Lecturer	Regional Planning and Environmental Management	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. B. G. AMEME	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Urban Design, Landuse and Environmental Mgt planning, Housing Studies	—
Tpl. Dr. D. SAMUEL	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Rural Development planning	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. E. C. DIKE	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Geo Design and Urban Informatics, Spatial Planning and Data Science, Environmental Remote Sensing, Climate Change and Environmental Modeling	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. E. C. NWOKAEZE	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Spatial/Infrastructure Planning, Urban Design, Urban Management, Planning Law and Urban Governance.	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. I. BROWN	Senior Lecturer/Ag. HOD	Senior Lecturer/Ag. HOD	Disaster Risk Resilience Planning, Waste Management, Urban Planning, Qualitative Methods, Marine Spatial Planning and Blue Economy	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. I. I. WEJE	Reader	Reader	Environmental Planning, EIA, Urban Studies, Quantitative Techniques and Housing Studies	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. S. W JOHNBULL	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Environmental Planning and Management, Urban Design, Rural Development Planning	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. T. D. IKIRIKO	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Land use and Natural Resource planning, Planning Law, Rural Development. Planning and Urban Security	[email protected]
Tpl. Dr. T. EYENGHE	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Urban studies, Environmental Planning and Management, Sustainable Development and Quality of Life Studies	[email protected]
Tpl. F. O. GBARABE	Lecturer II	Lecturer II	Land use Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Design Sustainable Development	[email protected]
Tpl. I. N. DAPA	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Urban Design and Wetland Studies	[email protected]
Tpl. K. P. VISIGAH	Lecturer I	Lecturer I	Urban Design, GIS,Geo-Information Mapping	[email protected]
Tpl. S. S. OWUKIO	Lecturer II	Lecturer II	GIS and Urban informatics, Urban Remote Sensing, , Resilience Planning Flood Risk Assessments, Urban Design and Drone Mapping, AI Machining Learning	[email protected]
Wike Ikechi Vivian	Administrative Officer II	Administrative Officer II	—	[email protected]