City Profile: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Todd ◽  
Ibrahim Msuya ◽  
Francis Levira ◽  
Irene Moshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Capital City ◽  
High Rate ◽  
City Management ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Cities in Africa are experiencing fast urbanization with growing demand for basic services. The city of Dar es Salam, one of the fastest growing cities in the region and the world, is likely to guide the urban future in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam is the former capital city of Tanzania and retains its importance as most of the government offices were located. However, the whole process of complete relocation of government offices to the present capital city of Dodoma might affect the dynamics in Dar es Salaam in the near future. Nevertheless, it is the leading commercial centre and economic hub in Tanzania and is expected to be a mega city by 2030. The growth of the city is construed by both natural increase and high rate of migration. However, the city’s organic growth was affected by racial-based residential segregation under the colonial regime, whose imprints are evident to date. In this profile, an overview of Dar es Salaam’s colonial, post-colonial, social, economic and location factors that led to urbanization is provided. This profile highlights the previous, current and future challenges, and explores the pathways to enhance sustainability and transformation of Dar es Salaam to be a smart city. Poor implementation of master plans led to minimal guidance of city growth, but the current land and and human settlement policy emphasizes on sustainable approach in urban planning including low costs but sustainable settlements even for the urban poor. Such transformation requires government and city management to invest in better planning implementation, creation of database that will inform future planning, improvement in social services such as infrastructure, access to quality and affordable housing, water and electricity supply. This paper contributes to the existing literature on nature of cities in developing countries, which had been affected by colonialism and poor implementation of policies, and suggest ways in which cities can to become smarter and sustainable.

scholarly journals Urbanization and Its Effects on Housing for the Urban Poor in Uyo Metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
C. H. Wizor ◽  
E. N. Le-ol Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
The City

Urbanization and its effect on housing for the urban poor cannot be over-emphasized particularly in the cities of the global south. The meaning that is attributed to such terms as ‘urbanization’ and ‘urban poor housing’ is frequently wide ranging and not precisely defined. Nevertheless, urban poor housing and urbanization are topical issues at local, regional and international levels which attracts the attention of policy makers and professionals. This study therefore, investigated urbanization and its effects on housing for the urban poor in Uyo metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It adopted a cross-sectional research design, which involves the administration of the research questionnaire to the selected respondents in the study area. The responses of the respondents were analyzed using a descriptive statistical tool. The result of the investigation revealed that the majority of the apartments occupied by the urban poor in Uyo metropolis are mostly single rooms and self-contained which are mostly overcrowded. Many of the houses occupied by the urban poor do not have kitchen, toilet, and bathroom in them. Urban poor in the study area are mostly faced with problems of dirty environment, poor power supply, insecurity and lack of basic social amenities. The respondents affirmed that the houses are overcrowded while the nature of crime faced by the urban poor in the study area includes kidnapping (8.5%), pickpocket (22.4%) robbery (46.1%) and rape (23.1%) respectively. The study therefore, recommended amongst others, the provision of basic infrastructures such as electricity, good roads, educational institutions, pipe-borne water, etc. in the urban poor neigbourhoods, rehabilitating of the urban poor neighbourhoods through urban renewal strategies and reducing of the accessibility gap to urban facilities and services between the urban poor and other residents of the city. The study further recommends the utilization of sustainable strategies by the government of Akwa Ibom State to reduce the high rate of rural-urban migration noticed in the study area and the systematic overhauling of the security architecture in Uyo metropolis.

scholarly journals MODEL BISNIS KAWASAN STRATEGIS PARIWISATA KOTA PALU SULAWESI TENGAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firman Syah
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Processing Zone ◽  
The City ◽  
Central Sulawesi

Palu city is the capital city of Central Sulawesi province bordering with Gorontalo Province. Indigenous people who inhabit the city of Palu is a community of Kaili tribe. Palu City was selected as a Special Economic Zone (KEK) for eastern Indonesia and consists of industrial zone, logistics zone and export processing zone. When viewed from the tourism business, there are several famous destinations such as Sibili Lake, Banua Mbaso, Hanging Bridge, Mosque 'Apung' Argam Bab Al Rahman, and Sis Al Jufrie.The method used by writer is qualitative with inductive data analysis. The results found that the city of Palu has shown passion in the field of tourism. Palu City presents a variety of new tourist destinations including natural attractions, culinary tours, and cultural tourism. For example Cars Tusuk Satay, Palu Bay, Four Palu Bridge, Solar Eclipse Monument, Nusantara Pavilion, and Palu Nomori Inscription. Then the tourists need to be given free space to satisfy the needs during a vacation. The business model implemented is that local people can entrepreneurship, gain profit, and create new jobs. Meanwhile, for the government through the Office of Culture and Tourism of Palu City is able to generate Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) in addition to taxes from culinary executed by local communities. To support, the Office of Culture and Tourism of Palu City can hold and coordinate with all the agencies in accordance with their respective work programs. As the development and development of houses to become homestay homes and home industry, the integration of public transportation fleet, and build the concept of Information Management System (SIM) Tourism via online to package the tourism potential of Palu City.

scholarly journals Perkembangan Kawasan Permukiman Akibatnya Terhadap Ruang Terbuka di Kota Semarang

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ridha Azzaki ◽  
Sugiono Soetomo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Capital City ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Projected Change ◽  
The City

Semarang is the capital city of Central Java Province, as a metropolitan city, Semarang has the capablity to support the rapid development of the city , one of the evident is the highly of activity on physical infrastucture, one of them is the construction of residential areas along the high rate of population growth. Settlement area development activities emerge the negatively impact to reduce the existence of open space area. This study uses a quantitative method through positivistic approach. Research data presented by the form of figures and the analysis using the statistics. This study was first carried out in 2006 and 2011 to analyze the spatial through digitized the image map of Semarang, and the results of the digitization of spatial land area of open space and a residential area, which is used to formulate some stage subsequent analysis: 1) Identification and analysis of the influence of the development of residential areas against the open space in the city, 2) Analysis of the acceleration of the projected change of land per year in Semarang in 2006-2020, 3) Analysis of the application of open space 30% (sample in District Tembalang). The result of this analysis showed the relationship between the relevant mutual influence. The rate of population growth and development of residential areas with a relationship of mutual influence supply and demand. Then, as the development of residential areas causes the reduction of open space. In additon, the background of this problem is how to formulate the recommendations to control the land use plan , in order to create an ideal city land use in the future.

scholarly journals Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anika Nasra Haque ◽  
Stelios Grafakos ◽  
Marijk Huijsman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Flood Protection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Dhaka is one of the largest megacities in the world and its population is growing rapidly. Due to its location on a deltaic plain, the city is extremely prone to detrimental flooding, and risks associated with this are expected to increase further in the coming years due to global climate change impacts as well as the high rate of urbanization the city is facing. The lowest-lying part of Dhaka, namely Dhaka East, is facing the most severe risk of flooding. Traditionally, excess water in this part of the city was efficiently stored in water ponds and gradually drained into rivers through connected canals. However, the alarming increase in Dhaka’s population is causing encroachment of these water retention areas because of land scarcity. The city’s natural drainage is not functioning well and the area is still not protected from flooding, which causes major threats to its inhabitants. This situation increases the urgency to adapt effectively to current flooding caused by climate variability and also to the impacts of future climate change. Although the government is planning several adaptive measures to protect the area from floods, a systematic framework to analyze and assess them is lacking. The objective of this paper is to develop an integrated framework for the assessment and prioritization of various (current and potential) adaptation measures aimed at protecting vulnerable areas from flooding. The study identifies, analyzes, assesses and prioritizes adaptive initiatives and measures to address flood risks in the eastern fringe area, and the adaptation assessment is conducted within the framework of multi-criteria analysis (MCA) methodology. MCA facilitates the participation of stakeholders and hence allows normative judgements, while incorporating technical expertise in the adaptation assessment. Based on the assessment, adaptive measures are prioritized to indicate which actions should be implemented first. Such a participatory integrated assessment of adaptation options is currently lacking in the decision-making process in the city of Dhaka and could greatly help reach informed and structured decisions in the development of adaptation strategies for flood protection.

scholarly journals Will Distance to the Capital City Matter When Supplying New Cities in Egypt?

GeoScape ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed R. Ibrahim ◽  
Houshmand E. Masoumi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Capital City ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Occupancy Rate ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Greater Cairo ◽  
Occupancy Rates ◽  
The City ◽  
Geographical Locations

Abstract Unlike other developing countries, the housing market in Egypt is characterized by densely populated urban areas in old cities and the peripheral urban agglomeration. In contrast, a high rate of vacancy along most of the new cities that have been established since the 1980s is seen. Regardless of such high rate of vacancies, still the variation in occupancy rates among those new cities is notable. Questions arising include: Does proximity to old cities or Greater Cairo affect the size of the population of the new cities? Is the size of the city or the year of establishment plays roles in attracting more inhabitants? The factors of spatial characteristics of new cities in Egypt remain questionable. This research aims to reveal the association between occupancy rate and six factors related to the spatial characteristics of new cities and their geographical locations, such as; current inhabitants, the estimated size of the target group, the size of new cities, total number of housing units, distance to nearby old city, and distance to Greater Cairo.

A City With a View: The Afforestation of the Delhi Ridge, 1883–1913

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL MANN ◽  
SAMIKSHA SEHRAWAT
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Capital City ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
British Government ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Landscape Gardening

AbstractDespite the contemporary importance of the Ridge forest to the city of Delhi as its most important ‘green lung’, the concept of urban forestry has been explored neither by urban historians studying Delhi nor by environmental historians. This article places the colonial efforts to plant a forest on the Delhi Ridge from 1883 to 1913 within the context of the gradual deforestation of the countryside around Delhi and the local colonial administration's preoccupation with encouraging arboriculture. This project of colonial forestry prioritized the needs of the white colonizers living in Delhi, while coming into conflict repeatedly with indigenous peasants. With the decision to transfer the capital to Delhi in 1911, the afforestation of the Delhi Ridge received a further stimulus. Town planners' visions of a building the capital city of New Delhi were meant to assert the grandeur of British rule through imposing buildings, with the permanence of the British in India being emphasised by the strategic location of the ruins of earlier empires within the city. The principles of English landscape gardening inspired the planning of New Delhi, with the afforestation of the Delhi Ridge being undertaken to provide a verdant backdrop for—the Government House and the Secretariat—the administrative centre of British government in India. Imperial notions of landscaping, which were central to the afforestation of the Delhi Ridge epitomised colonial rule and marginalized Indians.

scholarly journals Social Practice and the Laissez-faire Metropolis: Dwight Perkins in Chicago, 1895 - 1915

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Architectural Representation ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The City

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Chicago-based architect Dwight Perkins designed a prescient metropolitan plan for the American city that reimagined the polis as a terrain for sociological investigation and political activism. He collaborated with social scientists affiliated with the University of Chicago and with local, grass-roots activists to leverage design as a vehicle for social change. He argued that strategically placed, small-scale interventions would ameliorate the devastating impact that unplanned growth had on the urban poor and that these spaces would advance democratic social ideals in a city highly segregated by race, ethnicity, and wealth. Not only was Perkins a pioneer in understanding the city as a heterogeneous collection of cultural groups, he also rethought the manner in which the city was visualized by mediating its architectural representation through the lens of the social sciences. He abandoned illusionistic rendering techniques and illustrated the city as a series of sociological data-maps that combined statistical facts on population density, disease transmission, mortality rates, and criminal activity with geographic projections of Chicago. This new cartographic strategy helped him to identify and create public spaces and social services that benefited underprivileged communities. In doing so, Perkins was one of the first American architects to challenge the socio-economic conditions of the laissez-faire metropolis. Although largely ignored in histories of urban planning and architecture, his nascent social practice contributes to a critical reappraisal of cities that remains relevant today.

scholarly journals THE ANALYZE OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS TO MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE GENERATED IN SUMATERA ISLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Gita Prajati ◽  
Althien John Pesurnay
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Coverage Area ◽  
The Government ◽  
Result Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Banda Aceh

Waste produced since man living in social structure and community. Lately, waste problems becoming one of modern society’s interests. Population growth, industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth increasing solid waste significantly. In addition to that, education has contributed to solid waste. The incapability of government to manage waste causing problems in the health environment sector. The increase in waste generated demands the government to do waste management better. This research purpose is to analyze the most significant factor to waste generated based on sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors, that can be used as basic planning for the facility and cost of waste management systems. Cities included in the research’s coverage area are the capital city of Sumatera Provinces, except Banda Aceh. There are two methods in this research. The first method is cluster analysis to classify cities based on waste generated. The second methods are ANOVA and discriminant analysis to determine the most significant factor of the classification result. Analysis cluster shows that Medan and Bandar Lampung included in a group of the city with high waste generated. Whereas, Pekanbaru, Tanjungpinang, and Pangkalpinang included in a group of the city with low waste generated. ANOVA and discriminant analysis shows that the most significant factor to waste generated in Sumatera Island is population density. Sampah diketahui mulai diproduksi semenjak manusia mengenal kehidupan bermasyarakat dan hidup di dalam suatu komunitas. Belakangan, permasalahan sampah menjadi salah satu perhatian utama di kalangan masyarakat modern. Adanya pertumbuhan penduduk, industrialisasi, urbanisasi dan pertumbuhan ekonomi, mengakibatkan terjadinya peningkatan yang signifikan dari jumlah sampah perkotaan. Selain itu, tingkat pendidikan yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat juga berpengaruh terhadap produksi sampah yang dihasilkan. Ketidakmampuan pemerintah di dalam pengelolaan persampahan menimbulkan masalah di bidang kesehatan lingkungan. Peningkatan jumlah sampah menuntut pemerintah agar dapat menjalankan pengelolaan persampahan dengan baik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor yang paling berpengaruh terhadap timbulan sampah dilihat dari faktor sosiodemografi dan sosioekonomi, yang nantinya dapat dijadikan sebagai dasar perencanaan sarana dan pembiayaan dari pengelolaan sampah perkotaan. Penelitian dilakukan di ibu kota provinsi Sumatera, terkecuali Banda. Aceh. Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini terbagi menjadi dua tahap. Tahap pertama adalah analisis klaster untuk pengklasifikasian kota berdasarkan timbulan sampah. Tahap selanjutnya analisa diskiriminan dan ANOVA untuk menentukan faktor pembeda dari masing-masing kelompok yang telah terbentuk. Hasil analisis klaster menunjukkan bahwa kota Medan dan Bandar lampung termasuk ke dalam kelompok kota dengan tingkat timbulan sampah tinggi. Sedangkan kota Pekanbaru, Tanjung Pinang dan Pangkalpinang termasuk ke dalam kelompok kota dengan tingkat timbulan sampah rendah. Analisa diskriminan dan ANOVA memperlihatkan bahwa hanya ada satu faktor yang memberikan pengaruh paling signifikan terhadap timbulan sampah di ibu kota provinsi Sumatera, yaitu kepadatan penduduk.

scholarly journals Development measures for slums of Dhaka city

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Sanjida Ahmed Sinthia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
The Government

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh is extremely populated, unhygienic and environmentally degraded city. The growing number of population and environmental degradation are due to natural disaster and economic depression. As a result, the rate of urban poor is and producing huge pressure on urban lands, housing and infrastructure. Due to limited resources these poor people encroached open spaces, wetlands, vacant plots or even footpath for shelter. They don’t have any access to proper job market, healthcare facilities, education and sanitation either. These constraints are mostly resulted from the failures of the government in initiation proper policies and measures. Past policies of slum clearance, modernist apartment projects, housing provision, self-help, sites and services, and in-situ upgrading have not been effective at solving the crisis. This is now prime time to established planning and environmental management policy and sustainable development of the city area. Urban land management, rehabilitation and socio-economic development of the slum dwellers are also very important issues. The key focus of this paper is to find out sustainable development process for urban slum dwellers and build sustainable living place for them which are free from eviction, criminals, rent seekers and other miscreants.

scholarly journals The Importance of Location Factors in Determining Land Prices: The Evidence from Bratislava Hinterland

REGION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-198
Author(s):  
Martin Mariš
Keyword(s):  
Population Sample ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Household Location ◽  
Transport Connectivity ◽  
The City

Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, is currently experiencing a period of intensive suburbanisation, which in turn creates demand pressures and increases the price of urban land located in its hinterland. This paper investigates several locational factors, which likely significantly influence the demand for land plots and modulate `price-maker' conditions. Based on the population sample of 102 units, the results indicate that built-in infrastructure facilities on land under analysis, advanced transport connectivity in municipalities, and various amenities in the municipality cadastre tend to elevate land prices significantly. Moreover, the factor of distance from the city of Bratislava plays a major role in household location, which was identified by the apparent decreasing rent gradient pattern.

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