Why planning does not work? : land use planning and residents' rights in Tanzania / Tumsifu Jonas Nnkya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nnkya, Tumsifu Jonas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Tanzania--Planning.

Land use.

Land tenure--Tanzania.

Land tenure.

Land use--Law and legislation--Tanzania.

Right of property--Tanzania.

Right of property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers ; East Lansing, MI : Distributed in North America by Michigan State University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lack of transparency and accountability in the planning practice allow for misuse and abuse of the planning system to serve the interests of the more powerful and influential groups, including those entrusted with the powers of planning. The outcomes of a non-inclusive, non-transparent and insensitive planning include: insecurity of land tenure rights and subsequently investments in land; poverty; informal land subdivision and building; unplanned spatial growth and endless conflicts in land development. These are detrimental to the residents and erode their trust and confidence in the government...

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Plates; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - The Moshi Master Plan; Urban and Regional Development Strategy in the 1970's; Preparation of the Moshi Master Plan; Extension of the town boundary; Rapid population growth and demand for building plots; Presentation of the Draft Plan and the Actors Involved; Assumptions, Objectives, and Policies; Approval of the Plan and Early Doubts on Its Efficacy; Summary; Chapter 3 - Adoption of the Master Plan; Expansion of the Town Administrative Boundary

Protests by Excluded Stakeholders The First Major Drawback; Summary; Chapter 4 - Msaranga Plan: "For the Sake of a Good Plan"; Msaranga Settlement; Residents' Meanings of Land; Preparation of the Msaranga Layout Plan; Commencement of Plots Survey; Efforts to Discontinue Survey of Plots; Summary; Chapter 5 - Organized Protests Against the "Good Plan"; Establishment of Residents' Committee; Seeking Legal Advice; Persuasion to Facilitate Survey of Plots; Summary; Chapter 6 - The Council Is Charged with Trespass; The Complaint; Hearing and Ruling of the Application for a Court Injunction; Summary

Chapter 7 - Suppression of Conflicts Impeachment of the Msaranga Chairman; A New Strategy to Facilitate Stalled Plots Survey; Banned from Leadership for 60 Months; Help Is Sought from the President; Hearing of the Main Legal Suit Against the Council; Adding Salt to a Wound: Valuation for Property Tax; Quest for Survey Permission; Departure of the Plaintiffs' Counsel; Summary; Chapter 8 - Council Retreats to the Lawful Planning Area; Attempt to Regularize Mji Mpya and Majengo Miembeni Settlements; Response to Chaos Caused by Creation of Plots; Summary

Chapter 9 - A Strategy to Safeguard Land Rights Longuo Settlement; Invitation to the Planners; The Councilor's First Agenda; Planning Without Planners; Summary; Chapter 10 - The Planners' Response; Planning without the Residents; Approval of the Planner's Plan; The "Cynic Planner"; Summary; Chapter 11 - Rationalization of Change of Use; Moves to Expropriate Land; Expropriation of Land for a Psychiatric Institution; The Villagers "Eye" the Land; The Custodians Surrender the Land to Themselves; Objection, Counter-Objection, and Lobbying; Ratification of the Expropriation Plan; Summary

Chapter 12 - Sharing the Expropriated Land Attempt to Protect Public Interest; The Winner Takes All: Allocation of Plots Before Approval of the Survey Plan; The Little Child: "Vigogo Wapora Ardhi ya Vichaa"; Rewriting History: The Site Was Zoned for a Regional Hospital; Summary; Chapter 13 - In the Name of Employment Creation; Revocation of Land Rights of a Public Institution; Ratification of the Change of Use and Reallocation of Land; Objection by the First Land-Rights Holder; The Planner in a Dilemma; Approval of the Change of Use; Summary; Chapter 14 - Guilty of Illegal Practice

Changed Political Context

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-00503-4

9786613005038

9987-08-109-6

9987-08-126-6

9987-08-114-2

OCLC:

830165557