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Peri-urban is the transition zone between well organized, recognized urban land uses and areas devoted to agriculture. The study examined the trend of private development across the peri-urban area of the town. the study administered 400 closed ended questionnaires and the total of 235 questionnaires were retrieved through random sampling technique. The study utilized both descriptive and inferential method of data analysis as well GIS tool. The result of analysis of GIS revealed that there is continuous sprawling in residential land use development in peri-urban area of Bida. Also the spatial analysis of the area revealed that there is an overlapping function in land use where agricultural land use area continues to be substituted for residential land use. the result of mean revealed that three major drivers of peri-urban development to includes urban expansion, large scale public investment and availability of social amenities and were ranked in order of relative importance 94%, 93.6% and 92.6% respectively and the factor analysis revealed 76.145% of variability in the identified twenty-two (22) factors influencing peri-urban development comprised of eight important factors influencing peri-urban development such as neighborhood factor, environmental and market factor, physical infrastructure factors, communication networks and security, urban factors, migration and low labor price, community service factor and climate and planning factor. The study concludes that urban sprawl will continue to emerge unless certain factors that influence peri-urban development are addressed and study recommends that building specification and development of master plan that specified various land uses should be embarked upon by the government.
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