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Title: | Colonial and neocolonial urban planning: three generations of master plans for Dar es Salaam Tanzania |
Author: | Armstrong, Allen |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Utafiti |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 43-66 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Tanzania East Africa |
Subjects: | urban planning capitals urbanization City planning Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) imperialism |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/utafiti/171/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Although not a planned town in the modern sense, Dar es Salaam has received the benefit of planning in some form from its establishment, beginning with the first planning scheme drawn up in 1891 by the German colonial authorities. More recent master plans, published in 1949, 1968 and 1979, have subsequently attempted to guide the city's rapid postwar growth. A distinguishing feature of all three plans has been the degree of influence exerted by external institutions and ideas in shaping Tanzania's leading city. The master plans have not only been externally funded (by the British, Canadian and Swedish government respectively) but also prepared by foreign planning consultants contracted for the task. However, it is in the content and approach of the plans that external influence is most evident. In reviewing the three master plans it is clear that, despite the continuing transformation of local conditions and wider national policy to which each plan had to address itself, the strongest impact on each plan has been Western planning values and concepts in general and the planning fashions prevailing at the time of each plan's preparation in particular. Many of these specific ideas, and the whole process of technology transfer and cultural colonialism which they represent, have proved quite inappropriate to Dar es Salaam's situation and unresponsive and insensitive towards the real needs of its urban residents. Notes, ref. |