CHAPTER ONE
1.0    INTRODUCTION
Urban are very much human invention which man has evolved as a means of organizing his existence. In the course of time, settlements grew in size and complexity. It was observed by lean and Goodall (1966) that the development of urban areas and the increasing proportion of man’s ability to fashion the physical, residential.
However, distinction must be made between factors bringing about a general growth in urban population and urban areas throughout a nation and their which affect the growth of a particular urban area. Thus, these are those residential and social factors. Going by the nature, existing resident activities in upper part of Gaa-Akanbi i.e. bungalow, duplex and tenement.
    Which about a drastic change in the area, because the seeds of urban growth are very much contained in the urbanization itself and also with increase in society of well being and urbanization in Gaa-Akanbi in relation to its residential activities especially as additional people from different places immigrate to settle down there. With this increase in population it was brought additional techniques, skills, ideas for creating a better environment for settlement in particular area.
1.1    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
    According to the national urbanization policy Jawaharal N (2005) and the national mission on sustainable habitat stated that urban policy seeks to create fully sensitize cities through awareness generation, integrated city sanitation plans etc. however this is not so in Gaa-Akanbi because of the alarming increase in the population and poor sanitation standard of the people living in the area. Which has leads to pollution and other dangerous condition affecting the people living there.
1.2    AIM AND OBJECTIVES
    The topic aim to examine the causes of urban growth on residential properties and also aimed at examine the impact of urban growth on the residential property development in the case study area. The following objectives are to be considered.
i.    To examine the various type of residential properties in the study area.
ii.    To examine the rate of urban growth in upper part of Gaa-Akanbi in Ilorin south L.G.A Kwara state.
iii.    To examine to what extent has the urban growth favoured residential property development in upper part of Gaa-Akanbi in Ilorin south L.G.A.
iv.    To examine other influence and problems caused by the urban growth.
1.3    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
i.    To create more reliable and easy way of solving the problem of urban growth in Gaa-Akanbi.
ii.    To create a better way of improving urban development in the area.
1.4    SCOPE OF STUDY
The scope is to highlight the impact of the urban growth on residential property development in upper part of Gaa-Akanbi.
1.5    LIMITATION OF STUDY
The difficulties encountered during this research where basically on data collection. Thus, these have been described as the most frustration period ever sit. Also, inability to obtain the data at the actual time contributed to the research problem which is the backbone for the success of this project; in addition there are difficulties in tracking down the corners in upper part of Gaa-Akanbi in Ilorin Kwara state.
1.6    STUDY AREA (GEOGRAPHICAL Setting &HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY AREA)
Location plan /sketch and constructional detail of case study.
    Ilorin is the present day capital of Kwara state in the north central region of the federal republic of Nigeria. It is a predominantly Islamic city with people of diverse culture who have come together live as one in peace and harmony.
    The entire Ilorin community comprise of five local government areas namely; Ilorin west, Ilorin south, Ilorin east Asa and Moro. Those local government areas are all under entity known as Ilorin emirate.
    Ilorin south is a local government area in Kwara state, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Fufu.
    It has an area of 174km2 and a population of 208, 671 at the 2006 census.
Ilorin community was discovered in the 18th century by the duo of Afonja and Are-Onakakanfo, Yoruba warlords and sheik Alimi, an Islamic scholar. These heroes of Ilorin arrived Ilorin at different times and in different circumstance.
    Sheik Alimi was an Islamic missionary propagating Islam and its teaching across the lord. The sojourned for the year through village and across Yoruba land. He had followers with whom he moved around to establish the tenets and principles of Islamic. He was temporarily settled Kano village very cross to Ilorin where he built mosque and houses. From Kuwo, sheik Alimi continued to explore other territories where he could spread and establish his beliefs and settle down permanently.
    During the course of his exploitation, sheik Alimi discovered a river that flows through villages which he sought to known its origin, that river is river Asabail known today as river Asa. He traced the origin of the river to the vicinity of the river.