Abstract:
Incidences of fire at market places in Nigeria are always connected to the issues from electrical
appliances usage like fans and air conditioning systems. To address these issues, Garki model market,
Wuse market and Maitama farmers market in Abuja of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria
were comparatively studied with the aim of overviewing their landscape architecture with regards to
passive fire control measures, so as to provide guidelines to enhance the use of planted trees against
fire outbreaks at the stages of design of markets in Nigeria. The data of this research were gathered
by means of desktop study. Then, contents analyses technique was employed to analysed the data and
to checked their results, in order to ensure validities. Among the research findings are: there is no
landscape architecture with regards to planted trees in Garki model market and the cross section of
Wuse market for moderating temperatures during the hot season and for reducing energy usage, and
the use of planted trees was given a consideration in Maitama farmers market but it is not adequate.
Among the provided guidelines are: Architects should ensure that landscape architecture with
regards to planted trees should be considered at the design stages of markets, and landscape
architecture with regards to the use of planted trees during the design stages of Nigerian markets
should not be given partial considerations by the Architects, in order to ensure adequacy of trees.
