Abstract

Urban Sprawl and Escalation of Informal Settlements in Dodoma, Tanzania
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Mwidick Skilla

The rapid increase in number of urban poor has caused the invasion of public and private land by low income groups devoid of planning programs depriving them of secure tenure and basic physical and social infrastructure. The deployment of GIS has been used to facilitate this study.

The deployment of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) analysis was used in determining informal settlements intensification in the light of hypothesized factors.

The study revealed that the escalation of informal settlements in the area is caused by; high urban migration rate, too poor per capita income to meet expensive formal development conditions, political interference in implementation of plans, poor planning and monitoring technology and insufficient financing.

Having revealing the reasons for the intensification of informal settlements, the project will be helpful to the audience as it will impart them with the knowledge of the ways for addressing this problem found in the recommendations topic.