Planning of Kampala City 1903—1962: The Planning Ideas, Values, and Their Physical Expression

Abstract

The historical association between the planning of Kampala city and colonialism is unquestioned. The empirical observation indicates that the spatial structure of Kampala is partly a unique product of European colonial planning—their inherent ideas and principles. Scholars and analysts have largely ignored this important aspect in the assessment of planning of Kampala. This article attempts to fill the knowledge gap on the historical planning ideas and how the ideas were implemented in Kampala’s urban space. Through a descriptive and exploratory approach, and by review and deduction of archival and documentary resources, this article suggests two major factors including inter alia, the discovery of malaria and the germ theory, the need to reproduce ‘‘European type space’’ in Kampala affected planning and consequently, the urban structure of Kampala city in the first half of the twentieth century.

Global retail capital and urban futures: Feminist postcolonial perspectives

“…These echo, with distortions, colonial anti‐Black narratives of urban planning as civilizing practice. For example, the construction of Nakasero Fort in 1906, the 1951 Kampala City Plan, and the subsequent creation of Nakawa and Naguru “African residential zones” racially segregated, displaced, and strictly controlled African people to produce “safe” and “hygienic” urban landscapes for white administrators (Byerley, 2013; Omolo‐Okalebo et al, 2010).…”

The City as an Experimental Space: The Interface between Public Satisfaction and Effects on Urban Planning Resulting from Kampala City’s Sprawl

“…There is a lack of a comprehensive understanding of the effects of urban sprawl on planning. This dates back when Kampala was declared the capital city of Uganda during which time the city was planned for the population of 300,000 without considering future urban changes [28,87]. This understanding was neglected because like many other cities in the world in their infancy, Kampala was urbanising at a slow pace [88].…”

The spatial expression of physical development controls in a fast growing Ghanaian city

“…Post-independent governments instituted regulatory approaches that were patterned on British planning systems (see Omolo-Okalebo et al, 2010). For example, the Town and Country Planning Ordinance of 1945 (CAP 84) in Ghana and the Nigerian Town and Country Planning Ordinance of 1946, which were both modeled after the British town planning principles, still constitute the legal bases for contemporary town planning in both countries.…”