Re-Interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning - The Case of Dar Es Salaam

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Water, Sanitation and the African Urban World 3. Can We Describe a City from the Water Perspective? Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 4. The Fragmented Water Spaces: An Urban Catalogue 5. Master Planning in Dar es Salaam and its Relation to the Water System: A Historical Perspective 6. The City Between Two Masterplans (1979–2015) 7. The Future of Dar es Salaam. Initial Review of the New Masterplan, 2012–2032 8. Challenges to the Planning Discipline: The Nature of Rapidly Urbanizing African Cities in Relation to Water and Sanitation 9. Post Scriptum

About the author

Maria Chiara Pastore is a post-doctoral fellow and course instructor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research and professional interests regard the relation between the development of water and sanitation systems and urban environments, urban planning in Africa and adaptive planning in relation to rapidly growing cities. She is a consultant to the World Bank (DRR) in Malawi.

Summary

This book focuses on Dar es Salaam, a city where rapid urbanisation and high annual growth have led to increasing water demand and strained the water and sanitation systems.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Chiara Pastore, Maria Chiara (Politecnico DI Milano Pastore, Pastore Maria Chiara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138651845
• ISBN: 978-1-138-65184-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Interdisciplinary studies, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building