Abstract
This study examines the role of landscape design in shaping pedestrian movement within the Caleb University campus, Imota, Lagos State. The campus presents observable evidence of landscape design deficiency across its principal pedestrian zones: fragmentary pathway provision, widespread desire line formation, progressive paving failure, open drainage channel deterioration, absent shade along key routes, and surface root uplift caused by unmanaged tree growth through paved areas. These conditions directly impede safe, comfortable, and efficient pedestrian movement. The research adopts a descriptive-analytical qualitative methodology employing structured physical site observation, behavioural mapping, and systematic photographic documentation across six identified route segments. Findings are interpreted against the literature on landscape design, walkability, outdoor thermal comfort, and pedestrian behaviour in Nigerian university campus environments (Atolagbe et al., 2025; Odeyale, 2022; Adebara et al., 2022). The study finds that pedestrian movement is largely reactive and informal, governed by design failure rather than by intentional landscape planning. Recommendations address pathway formalisation, drainage rehabilitation, shade planting, surface repair, and the adoption of an integrated campus landscape framework.