@article{1472041,
      recid = {1472041},
      author = {Adedeji, Joseph Adeniran,},
      title = {Ecological urbanism of Yoruba cities in Nigeria : an  ecosystem services approach /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 193 pages).},
      abstract = {This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key  informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and  ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure  (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos,  Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria.  It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS)  demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this  largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in  addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage  Site, Osogbo; Biological Garden and Park, Akure; Lekki  Conservation Centre, Lagos; Adekunle Fajuyi Park,  Ado-Ekiti; Muri Okunola Park, Lagos; and some institutional  GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens,  Ibadan; Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta  Botanical Garden, Abeokuta; and University of Lagos Lagoon  Front Resort, Lagos, Nigeria. The study draws on  theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit  ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium  Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green  spaces, home gardens, and English-types of parks and  gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism,  colonial and post-colonial city planning. The book provides  methods of achieving a form of modernized traditionalism as  means of translating the IKS into design strategies for  eco-cultural cities. The strategies are framework, model,  and ethnographic design algorithms that are syntheses of  the lived experiences of the key informants.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1472041},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34688-0},
}