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Communal Interaction and Social Capital in Student-Oriented Recreational Spaces: A Case Study of Lagoon Front, University of Lagos, Lagos State

Recreational spaces within university campuses serve functions that extend far beyond leisure. They constitute critical social infrastructure through which students form relationships, develop community ties, and accumulate the forms of trust and reciprocity that collectively constitute social capital. Despite their significance, student-oriented recreational spaces in Nigerian universities have received limited scholarly attention, particularly with respect to how their physical design and management shape the quality and frequency of communal interaction. This study investigates the relation…