MUSHI, GLADNESS F. – 21996/T.

2018

5/16/2021 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY – LM214

Assignment 01
Formulate a research title and provide;
1. Background information
2. Research objectives
3. Research questions
THE BRITISH PLANNING CULTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LAND USE
PLANNING IN TANZANIA.

Background of the matter

The British Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was adopted in many British colonies and
even updated versions of the legislation retained the major features in several countries[ CITATION
Pay01 \l 1033 ]. This includes zoning criteria and land use planning standards that based on the
model of a low density, green city that reflected the ideals of a colonial version of the Garden
City combined with ideologies of a city’s sanitation and health concerns. This concept may have
been adequate for colonial towns, which had modest growth that were socially and physically
contained through restrictions of rural-urban migration. [ CITATION Njo98 \l 1033 ]. However, the
Act cannot cope with the high urban growth rates in most of their colonial regions especially in
Africa since their independence and, above all, it cannot be implemented by weak public
administrations with limited resources.[ CITATION Pay01 \l 1033 ]

In Tanzania, the British Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was adopted via the Town and
Country Planning Act of 1956, Cap 378 and it is still the main legislation for urban planning in
Tanzania[ CITATION Car17 \l 1033 ]. It covers issues like; use of land and buildings, intensity of use
of land and occupancy rate; size, form and construction materials of buildings; siting of
buildings; alignments and reservation of land for roads and other physical infrastructure and
preservation of natural and man-made features as well as regulating and controlling disposal of
refuse and pollutants [ CITATION Sch17 \l 1033 ].

Since disagreement about territory, boundaries and access to land resources have always been a
good cause of bloodshed; nothing is more likely to prevent misunderstanding and conflicts that
can cause more harm to human and their habitat than a relevant and thoughtful definition of
landholding according to their respective culture and traditions. After Tanzanian independence in
1961, the colonial planning standards were modified but with little attention to the cultural
realities. This study intends to speculate on Tanzanian culture as a barrier to land-use planning
processes since they are genuinely descended from the British planning culture. However, since
traditions and beliefs are quite hard to eliminate from people despite of any foreign culture
influence, this research aims at looking deeper into the elements of Tanzanian culture against the
land use planning theories and concepts which in turn creates difficulties or rather impossibilities
in land use planning processes or implementation. Thus, the general objectives of this research
are to explore the impact of the British planning culture on the land use planning in Tanzania
and to identify further the cultural originated barriers that hinder the land use planning process
and implementation. On the contrary, the specific objectives are:

 To identify elements of the British culture that have been adopted along with their
planning culture in Tanzanian land use planning arena and speculate their adoption
approaches.
 To identify elements of Tanzanian culture that are in contrast with the adopted British
culture and their reality gap.
 To determine the elements of Tanzanian culture amongst those in contrast, which have
been barriers to land use planning in Tanzania and speculate their impact in the arena.

Research questions:

1. To what extent has the British culture been adopted in land use planning in Tanzania?
2. To what extent is the Tanzanian culture against the adopted British culture?
3. What elements of Tanzanian culture hinder land use planning?
4. To what extent does the Tanzanian culture impact the land use planning processes and
implementation?

REFFERENCES

References
Njoh, A. J. (1998). The political economy of urban land reforms in a post colonial state.

Payne. (2001). The impact of regulation on the livelihood of the poor. ITDG.

Scholz, W., Robinson, P., & Dayaram, T. (2017). Colonial Planning concepts and realities.

Silva, C. (2017). Urban Planning in Sub-saharan Africa. San Diego.