Abstract
In the emerging megacity of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, rapid urban growth is progressing informally without statutory planning. Suppliers of technical infrastructure are operating without reliable information about the distribution of future demand, while settlements are starting to grow without basic services.
Household surveys and focus group discussions conducted in new settlements in the urban periphery confirmed the dominance of the shelter first principle in the locational decisions of poor settlers but also the high importance assigned to infrastructure provision during the consolidation process.
Expert interviews with representatives of planning authorities and utility providers have revealed a serious coordination deficit and the need for integrated urban development strategies and tools.
A simulation model capable of demonstrating patterns of future urban growth and of ensuing demand for public utilities proved to provide a powerful tool for the coordination of development policies and the efficient provision of trunk infrastructure (Hill and Lindner 2010).
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The research project ‘Trunk infrastructure and urban growth – managing rapid urbanisation under poverty in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’ was conducted from 2005 to 2008 at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany, in close cooperation with Prof. Dr. Wilbard Kombe, Director of the Institute of Human Settlement Studies, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam. It was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the programme ‘Research for a sustainable development of megacities of tomorrow’. Besides the authors of this chapter, the project team comprised Timo Basteck, Dr. Wolfgang Scholz and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Tietz.
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Officially, only lease titles are assigned, but title holders as well as informal occupiers treat their plots like freehold property.
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Hill, A., Hühner, T., Kreibich, V., Lindner, C. (2014). Dar es Salaam, Megacity of Tomorrow: Informal Urban Expansion and the Provision of Technical Infrastructure. In: Kraas, F., Aggarwal, S., Coy, M., Mertins, G. (eds) Megacities. International Year of Planet Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3417-5_12
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