Urbanization and Housing Typologies in an Urbanizing City: Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria as a Case Study

The study addressed housing typologies as a result of urbanization Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Ado-Ekiti is growing with an influx people and its attendance infrastructure. Urbanization has given rise to different types buildings, changes in status, however these are not yet researched, recorded captured. Structured questionnaires 1,500 were administered the respondents who landlords or oldest tenants 1311 responded. town was structured into three zones: Urban core, Transitional Periphery. Statistical tables generated for variables. Two hypotheses formulated: there no significant variation area difference status units area. Analysis Variance (ANOVA) Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistics at 0.05 level significance used test two hypotheses. It found out that one single family bungalow face-me-face-you more urban core 48.1% 34.2% respectively while semi-detached storey transitional periphery 14.6% 1.7% 11.4% 11.1% respectively. revealed between zones. recommended should be renewal programme owners dilapidated buildings encouraged reconstruct.