Urban Development in Nigeria-A Post-SAP Period Pattern traces the roots of urban development problems in Nigeria to socio-economic development approaches in the country dating back to events in the pre-colonial era. Fundamentally, national economic crisis has shaped such approaches since independence. Urban development problems are realistically seen in this work to involve a multi-dimensional process: the journey of the primitive man to modernity is seen to characterize the fundamental transformational aspects of development as a multifaceted process; the natural urban population growth, the steady shift from rural to urban areas, the social and economic changes happening over a period of time and the national macroeconomic planning and management under which they are realized. These considerations have influenced, at all time, the methods of studying the various aspects of this work, thus culminating in looking at city development in Nigeria, in a period expected to witness increased private sector participation in national economic development in the country. The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), in itself, prepared the country for the entrenchment of economic reform programmes and projects guided by free market principles. It has placed strong demands for a new urban development pattern based on more efficient utilization and management of existing resources. Urban growth and development must be re-enacted from the inside of the city.