A town planning expert and former Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako, has urged professionals in the built environment to embrace collaboration, saying multidisciplinary practice is essential for effective service delivery and the development of sustainable communities.
Salako made the call on Thursday while delivering his keynote address at the 2026 Annual General Meeting of the Association of Town Planning Consultants of Nigeria, held in Abeokuta with the theme, “Tendering and Bidding for Planning Jobs and Collaboration Among Firms.”
He pointed out that although consultants were taught in school that town planning was a multidisciplinary profession requiring practitioners to work with experts in other fields to achieve better results, many still did not take the counsel as seriously as they should.
Salako explained, “Town planning is a multidisciplinary profession, and collaboration is necessary for effective delivery. Although we were taught this in school, many
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