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Students’ Perceptions of Campus Green Open Space Patronage in a Nigerian University

Olawale Oreoluwa Olusoga and Ayomide Ruth Sanusi
Landscape Journal, May 2025, 44 (1) 33-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.44.1.33
Olawale Oreoluwa Olusoga
Dr. Olawale Oreoluwa Olusoga is a registered architect and currently a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. He obtained his PhD in Architecture from the Federal University of Technology, Akure. His current research projects include analyzing green infrastructure availability at the site scale, assessing green space usage, studying the well‐being benefits of green infrastructure, conducting Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) assessments, and exploring vertical greening systems in housing.
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Ayomide Ruth Sanusi
Ayomide Ruth Sanusi is a postgraduate student of Architecture at the Federal University of Technology, Akure.
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