Town planning as a professional discipline in the field of environmentalstudies and management is essentially for all town and country planningactivities and development in the country. The town planning profession willhave a lot of things to say as regards good governance. The professionflourished well before the Land Use Act, suffered grievously during the thickof Land Use Act, which eroded a lot of functions in the preparation of layoutsdue to the executive power of the State Administrators over land. The militaryregime dealt a serious blow to the progress and implementation of planningprogrammes by flagrant abuses and imposition of orders. Planning becamefull government controlled and development control was public-oriented,whereas under the effective rule of law and good governance, physicalplanning is meant to take adequate control of future development. Thesystematic development is essential and necessary for the orderly growth ofthe towns and cities with the use of master plans, land use zoning, and layoutof new areas as some of the planners’ techniques for achieving the desiredgoal. That is why good governance and effective leadership control is anasset for city development. These analyses are what the paper has examined.
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OE Aluko (2011) studied this question.