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- Tanzania develops transport masterplan for Dar es Salaam - The East African
The East African reports
“Tanzania has released a transport policy and system development master plan for Dar es Salaam roads, which incorporates the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.”[SOURCE: The East African - Tanzania develops transport masterplan for Dar es Salaam].
- Urban renewal programme: Green areas for Kano soon - DALIY TRIUMPH
DAILY TRIUMPH reports
“AS part of the resolve to achieve its urban renewal objectives, Kano state government says it is set to make the ancient city one of the most beautiful cities not only in Nigeria but the world over.In this regard, the state Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA) is currently conducting various beautification exercises [...]
- Uganda: Kampala’s Poor Physical Planning - Who is Responsible for the Mess? (Page 1 of 1)
As city councillors demand for City Council’s quick investigations and demolition of the mushrooming illegal structures in Kampala, they are concerned that the problem will not be solved unless corruption in KCC is brought to an end.
SOURCE: allAfrica.com: Uganda: Kampala’s Poor Physical Planning - Who is Responsible for the Mess?
- African urban areas have failed in this ‘Century of the City’ - DAILY NATION
THE 100 YEARS BETWEEN 1950 and 2050 have been dubbed as the “Century of the City”, and according to Mrs Anna Tibaijuka, executive director of UN-Habitat, “will be remembered for the greatest social, cultural, economic and environmental transformation in history – the urbanisation of humanity”.
Africa, the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent, will be half-urban by [...]
- Why Tanzania needs an urban development and management policy - DailynewsOnline
Kironde offers a column on Tanzania’s rapid urbanisation and how past development was undertaken and what the future holds.
SOURCE: Tanzania Standard Newspapers
- New plan to give middle class cheap home loans
Kenyans who earn at least Sh40, 000 a month, who are also considered to be the majority of the emerging middle class, could soon have the chance to get a loan to buy a house in a decent part of Nairobi.
The Government has over the decades failed to make good housing plans to cater for [...]
- allAfrica.com: Africa: Environment Ministers Launch ‘Environment Atlas’
African ministers of environment recently launched the Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, which shows a rapidly changing landscape, prominent of which is the disappearance of glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Ruwenzori Mountains on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda.
SOURCE: allAfrica.com: Africa: Environment Ministers Launch ‘Environment Atlas’ [...]
- Poor planning in towns and cities fuels street hawkers - Tanzania
Urban authorities which have failed to allocate special trading areas for petty traders in most towns and cities in the country are to blame for the endless quarrels between street hawkers known as machingas and local government officials.
But poverty has also been fueling the increase of street hawkers as most youths flock into cities and [...]
- Students Win 2010 Landscape Design Competition
Two students have won the 2010 Green Goal Mouille Point Student Landscape Design competition for designing a safe, spacious and aesthetic inner city park and recreation area head of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
This comes after landscape design and architectural students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology [...]
- Winners of 2010 Design Competition to Be Announced
The City of Cape Town will on Thursday announce the winners of its 2010 Green Goal Mouille Point Student Landscape Design Competition.
As a one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the city will announce the winners of the competition on Thursday at the Cape Town Hotel.
This is the first ever student [...]
- Urban forest grows in Soweto
The target is to plant 200 000 trees in dry and dusty Soweto by the end of the year. Already well on the way, City Parks has a number of tree-planting projects on the go.
WITH thousands more trees being planted in the dusty, denuded areas of Soweto, this area may reach its urban forest status [...]
- New fee schedules for professionals operating within the built environment - South Africa
Fee guidelines for professionals working within South Africa’s built environment are set to come under scrutiny over the next few months, when fee and work-reservation proposals for professionals operating in the sector will be presented to the Competition Commission.
Read more @ Competition body to apply its mind to new fee schedules for professionals operating within [...]
- Zimbabwe: Clear Policy on Urban Agriculture Vital
Harare City Council must have a clear-cut policy on urban agriculture that takes into consideration the need to conserve the environment and the contribution of urban farming towards household food security.
Haphazard urban farming has negatively impacted on the environment and, in some instances, affected protected conservancies, forests and wetlands.
Read more @ AllsZimbabwe: Clear Policy on [...]
- Group Five sees urban risks
Pretoria - Group Five believes housing and property developments on the edge of urban areas could be at risk because of a lack of power, but the listed construction and engineering group thinks Eskom’s capacity problems have been exaggerated.
Group Five chief executive Mike Upton said yesterday that Eskom’s capacity would increase as the utility brought [...]
- Cameroon: Douala Urban Council Enters Urban Transport
For the first time in the history of the Douala Urban Council, the council has entered urban transport business.
The council has bought 38 percent of the shares of ‘Sociéte Camerounaise de Transport Urbain’, SOCATUR, which is the lone authorised urban bus service in Douala. SOCATUR, it would be recalled, bought over the defunct state-owned urban [...]
- High density plan for Midrand
GAUTRAIN station precinct, complete with a housing development similar to Cosmo City, is to be developed in Midrand. Located parallel to the K11 road and close to Grand Central Airport, the precinct will comprise of a rapid rail station and a high-density development made up of a range of housing and community facilities.
The Gautrain development [...]
- Dubai World Africa to invest US$200 million in eco golf and beach resort in Mozambique
UAE. Dubai World Africa today announced that it will invest US$200 million in the Bilene Hotel, a luxury beach resort, golf estate and eco development along 4 kilometres of exquisite prime beachfront in Mozambique.
Situated in a popular holiday village to the south of the country, just North of Maputo, the resort spans a 1,000 ha [...]
- Kenya is the latest victim of poorly managed urban migration
The recent violence in Kenya is part of an increasingly chronic condition in a world that is cramming — without effective urban investment, planning and management — into its cities. From Nairobi to Paris, Guangzhou to La Paz, riots and political upheaval have been fuelled by a failure to manage the gold rush-like claims of [...]
- Urban Agriculture thrives in Zimbabwe
RESIDENTS in and around Harare have capitalised on the incessant rains currently being experienced to plant maize and other crops for subsistence as more families get involved in urban agriculture.
A survey around the city, mostly in high-density suburbs, showed that urban agriculture was thriving as most residents took up patches of land dotted around the [...]
- Environmental campaigners against Morocco’s coastal developments - News, analysis, reports
MOROCCO. Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in North Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
With Spain trying to preserve what remains undeveloped on its built-up shoreline, Morocco has stepped forward as a willing host for large-scale tourism development as [...]
