Case study examines market-place sustainability in rural communities, indicating a need for development reform.
In Igboland, the role of fixed central places was not significant. Central-place institutions were of peripheral significance in the internal trade in agricultural produce. The repeated association of market-places, shrines and meeting places, showed that such centers were multi-functional. They were simple, with no organizational pattern, or technical requirements for the various functions they performed. Nigerian government is geared towards industrialization with emphasis on industrial development of rural area. The resultant effect of this rural development activity was found in the springing up of unplanned daily markets in most rural communities in place of the traditional four-day or eight-day markets. The developing nations intend to develop in a sustainable manner to meet their own needs. This in effect suggests new development, in the nature and structure of the architecture of these rural community market-places, to accommodate this new dimension, in the development of Nigerian nation at minimal environmental cost.
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Francis Onyechi Uzuegbunam (2024) studied this question.
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