Assessing the influences of service provision on pace and short and medium term development patterns of residential housing in Dar es Salaam

Namangaya, Ally; Kiunsi, Robert

doi:10.1080/00167223.2018.1500490

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“…Land acquisition is strongly linked to different actors, i.e., institutions, land owners, or local authorities [33,64]; however, this is beyond the scope of this research. Land price and actual construction of houses is influenced by different variables, including accessibility and service provision [33,65]: if a road is connected to the parcel, it becomes more expensive. This is also reflected by the decreasing road density along the peri-urban gradient: hypothetically, land price shows a similar gradual pattern.…”

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Defining the Peri-Urban: A Multidimensional Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Land Use along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Wolff

Mdemu

Lakes

2021

Land

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Highly dynamic peri-urban areas, particularly in the Global South, face many challenges including a lack of infrastructure, ownership conflicts, land degradation, and sustainable food production. This study aims to assess spatial land use characteristics and processes in peri-urban areas using the case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A mixed-method approach was applied, consisting of expert interviews and spatial data analysis, on a local scale along an urban–rural gradient. Expert interviews were conducted during a field study and analyzed regarding the characteristics and processes of peri-urban land development. A GIS-based analysis of land use patterns was applied using satellite imagery and Open Street Map data to identify a number of variables, such as building density and proximity to environmental features. Results show specific patterns of land use indicators, which can be decreasing (e.g., house density), increasing (e.g., tree coverage), static (e.g., house size), or randomly distributed (e.g., distance to river), along a peri-urban gradient. Key findings identify lack of service structures and access to public transport as major challenges for the population of peri-urban areas. The combination of qualitative expert interviews and metrics-based quantitative spatial pattern analysis contributes to improved understanding of the patterns and processes in peri-urban land use changes.

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Defining the Peri-Urban: A Multidimensional Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Land Use along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Wolff

Mdemu

Lakes

2021

Land

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“…The observable fact in the case of Kibaha project is lack of linkages between the initiatives to avail land by the landowners and local authorities and provisions of necessary infrastructure to make envisaged development realisable. As seen from the case of Kibaha, the consequence has been the development continuing to be informal and spread in areas that have infrastructure services (Figure 2), as stated earlier, it is infrastructure availability and not land that determine the pace of development [47]. The longer-term impact of this pattern has been that, although projects on availing land are numerous, the informal development along corridors with infrastructure facilities continues unabated.…”

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“…1350 per 1 US$. Open Journal of Business and Management guidance but access to infrastructure services, particularly water and electricity [47]. Consequently, the site and many other sites in the city fail to develop, and the expected income in terms of land value capture by the councils is not realised.…”

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Challenges in Administering Property Value Capture in Tanzanian Cities

Namangaya¹

2019

OJBM

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Most of urban areas in Africa, including in Tanzania, are facing huge infrastructure gaps that require innovative financing mechanisms. Due to the rapid pace of urban development in Africa, land or property value capture could be one of the effective strategies for raising much-needed resources. The paper, using cases of two projects in the Dar es Salaam metropolitan area, examines how the preconditions of implementing land value capture instruments prevail in Tanzania. It evident from the analysis of the legal context and the projects, concerning the prevalence of supportive preconditions for applying value capture instruments, the laws and urban management practices are quite superfluous in their provisions and proposals such that they do not give the required force, although general mandates are there. Impliedly, the laws and practices were designed without a specific focus or outlook towards making applications of property value capture instruments possible. This is a critical area that requires intervention to improve the financing of urban development needs in Africa.

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“…Self-builders are urban households, who acquire undeveloped land, and engage in incremental construction of housing for owner-occupation, renting, and other purposes. Self-builders are primary actors in opening up new land on the periphery for residential development (Namangaya & Kiunsi, 2018). In both cities, research has been carried out in peripheral and semi-peripheral settlements characterized by informal land acquisition processes, sprawling housing developments, and varying degrees of settlement consolidation.…”

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Urban property as security: examining the intersections between Africa’s growing middle classes and urban transformations

Andreasen

Agergaard

2020

Urban Geography

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African middle classes are growing in numbers and purchasing power. They form a significant share of urban populations and command a majority of urban resources. This paper examines the spatial practices of Africa's new urban-based middle classes and the implications for urban transformations. The focus is on households in the lower end of the spectrum, which form the majority of and account for most of the remarkable growth of Africa's middle classes. The paper draws attention to the middle classes as significant actors in the local housing systems, informal land markets and incremental construction practices commonly associated with the urban poor. Property investments are crucial for understanding how moderately resourceful households strive to achieve the kind of long-term security and upwards social mobility commonly associated with the middle classes. Through their investments, the middle classes shape informal urban expansion processes, cofinance settlement upgrading and produce socially diverse neighborhoods.

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Assessing the influences of service provision on pace and short and medium term development patterns of residential housing in Dar es Salaam

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Defining the Peri-Urban: A Multidimensional Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Land Use along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Defining the Peri-Urban: A Multidimensional Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Land Use along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Challenges in Administering Property Value Capture in Tanzanian Cities

Urban property as security: examining the intersections between Africa’s growing middle classes and urban transformations

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