The regulatory framework, unplanned development and urban poverty: Findings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kironde, J.M. Lusugga

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2005.07.004

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“…Planned land, which was pricey, cheap and scarce, invariably ended up in the hands of medium to higher income households, although the idea was to make it accessible to all (Kironde, 2006;Kombe & Kreibich, 2006).…”

Section: Background To the 20000 Plots Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good Governance, Efficiency and the Provision of Planned Land for Orderly Development in African Cities: The Case of the 20,000 Planned Land Plots Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kironde¹

2015

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In many African cities, governments have been unable to provide sufficient appropriately located and priced planned and serviced urban land to meet demand. As a result, informal settlements are growing faster than the rest of the city. Efforts to deal with this situation are hampered by several factors including lack of resources to acquire and service land to forestall haphazard development. In 2003, the Ministry of Lands, using borrowed funds from the Treasury, undertook an ambitious land servicing project in Dar es Salaam. The aims were to: alleviate the shortage of surveyed and serviced urban plots; tackle the rapid increase of informal settlements; control land speculation; address corruption; complement the national drive to reduce poverty; develop satellite towns; and implement the ruling Party's manifesto on liveable human settlements. This paper evaluates this undertaking from a good governance point of view. The Project was efficiently implemented. Over 40,000 plots were produced and sold; the invested billions of shillings were recouped several times over; and replication was enabled. However, it increased poverty among those whose land was acquired; and fuelled the growth of informal settlements. With less than 17% of the plots categorized as low cost, the Project was not pro-poor. Outcomes included the realization that land had value that could be unlocked with servicing. This has spawned several projects involving servicing land for sale, undertaken by other authorities and the private sector. This, however, is excluding low income households. The Project's achievements were realized at the expense of good land governance exemplified by: lack of coordination among key players; shortfalls in transparency, public participation, institutional decentralisation and inclusiveness; and neglect of environmental fallouts. Low income households were in practice excluded from this and subsequent money-driven land delivery schemes, a trend that needs to be reversed to avoid social polarization. J. M. L. Kironde 349

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Section: Background To the 20000 Plots Projectmentioning

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Good Governance, Efficiency and the Provision of Planned Land for Orderly Development in African Cities: The Case of the 20,000 Planned Land Plots Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kironde¹

2015

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“…Breach of planning regulation and continuation of illegal or unauthorized development is a common phenomenon in most of the developing world (Arimah & Adeagbo, 2000;Boamah et al, 2012;Lusugga Kironde, 2006;Rukwaro, 2009). Those developments especially along urban roads and transportation corridors have caused traffic congestion and public inconvenience in many cities.…”

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“…Planning instruments are traditional and weak in enforcing regulations (Lusugga Kironde, 2006;Rakodi, 2001). As a result, many development activities proceed illegally by violating building bylaws and congesting urban environment (Arimah & Adeagbo, 2000;Boamah, Gyimah, & Bediako Nelson, 2012;Lusugga Kironde, 2006;Rukwaro, 2009). The road ROW and railway track land have been occupied and building structures built illegally (Kariko, 2009: Patel, d'Cruz, & Burra, 2002.…”

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What makes, a big and difficult policy enforcement, possible? A success story from Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Karki

2015

Habitat International

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“…Only recently has the idea that urban areas could, to some extent, develop autonomously and non-linearly gained support (Kombe, 2005;Kironde, 2006;Verburg & Overmars, 2009). There is also growing interest in debate among various disciplines aligned to planning-such as organizational theory, decision theory and systems theory-within which increasing attention is paid to non-linear, multi-level and plural contexts (Jarzabkowski & Wilson, 2006;Avelino & Rotmans, 2009;Flanagan et al, 2010).…”

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Urban Land Changes as the Interaction Between Self-Organization and Institutions

Zhang¹,

Roo

Dijk

2015

Planning Practice & Research

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There is interest among planners in autonomous behaviour and non-linear processes supporting urban development. Self-organization has attracted attention as a potential driver for urban transformations. This paper aims to explore the mechanisms behind urban land use patterns resulting from the interdependence of self-organization and institutions. Our argument is based on an empirical study of two land development cases in urban Beijing. The paper argues that urban land transformations include characteristics of symmetry breaks, self-organizing processes, unintended collective behaviour and spontaneous patterns while simultaneously being institutionally framed. The interdependence between self-organization and institutional rules builds upon a circular causality framework at various spatial levels.

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The regulatory framework, unplanned development and urban poverty: Findings from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Cited by 104 publications

References 8 publications

Good Governance, Efficiency and the Provision of Planned Land for Orderly Development in African Cities: The Case of the 20,000 Planned Land Plots Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Good Governance, Efficiency and the Provision of Planned Land for Orderly Development in African Cities: The Case of the 20,000 Planned Land Plots Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

What makes, a big and difficult policy enforcement, possible? A success story from Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Urban Land Changes as the Interaction Between Self-Organization and Institutions

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