The Circle Mall Situation
How class inequality impacts Urban Design
5 min readNov 16, 2020
In 2008, while commuting back home from work in one of the Lagos danfo buses, I observed the stark differences in the demographics of the people on the right side of the bus — who came from the cluster of low income neighbourhoods opposite Victoria Garden City (VGC), Ajah Lagos; and those of the people on the left side of bus that lived in VGC. This…
