ABSTRACT
Residential use is by far the largest consumer of land in the city. This chapter discusses how the framework may be embellished to generate a spatial interaction-cum-location model of urban residents using the well-known relationship between the journey to work and residential location. As statistical averages, spatial interaction models can be very useful at the macro-scale level of investigation in describing static distribution and associated travel patterns. The chapter discusses the theoretical basis of a disaggregated residential location as well as the need for disaggregation, using some of the principles described by Wingo and Alonso. The empirical development of disaggregated location models is generally faced by a number of measurement problems and the availability of relevant data. The chapter also discusses some of the empirical problems of disaggregation in addition to using the disaggregated residential location model to understand human spatial behaviour in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria.
