As the German colonial presence in east Africa grew, Dar es Salaam became the administrative and commercial center of the colony. They renamed the colony Tanganyika but retained Dar es Salaam as the capital.
The British also legalized the informal residential segregation of the city that began under the Germans. Eventually a fourth section was developed for Asians.
When Tanganyika became independent in , Dar es Salaam became its first capital, a position it continued to have when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged in to become Tanzania.
Although the interior city of Dodoma was announced as the new capital of Tanzania in , Dar es Salaam continues to be the location of most government offices.
The population of the city in was 2. Naturally, as with most languages, much is lost in the translation. When a Tanzanian uses the word Karibu, it implies…. The reserve system consists of nine uninhabited islands,…. Add here. Dar es Salaam. Samora Avenue. Askari Monument. Expand map. In this section Accommodation Photos Videos. Your Trip 0. All rooms include a TV, air conditioning, a balcony, a refrigerator and a private bathroom with a bath,… Add to Your Trip View on map.
The reserve system consists of nine uninhabited islands,… Add to Your Trip View on map. Urban Tanzanians, as in most African countries, fare better in nearly all measures of human development than their rural counterparts. Lack of planning, weak regulations, and, in some countries, the difficulty of obtaining title deeds for land, leads cities to grow out rather than up, making commutes longer and more costly. That disconnects people and companies from jobs and markets, stifling the economy.
Dar es Salaam is a case in point. More than three-quarters of residents live in informal settlements like Tandale, a vast, labyrinthine neighborhood of flimsily built concrete houses, where children play near open sewers and flooding nearly every rainy season leads to outbreaks of diarrhea and cholera.
As Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid established Dar in as a plantation town to support his nearby archipelago, which had long been a hub of Indian Ocean commerce.
It grew rapidly during periods of German and British colonial rule. By it was the capital and largest city of an independent Tanzania. Inspired in part by Maoist China, his government resettled millions of people into planned villages, shifted the capital to Dodoma, then a small town in the hinterlands, and partitioned Dar es Salaam into three municipalities.
Nyerere succeeded—but people kept coming to Dar anyway. Arriving in a city with little planning and limited formal housing, migrants were forced to improvise. Her office, a jumble of paper renderings, 3D models, and boxes filled with planning documents past and present, is a living museum of the many ideas that have sought to give the city more direction.
Implementation has always proven difficult, she says. A Dar es Salaam master plan, for example, envisions the creation of five satellite cities designed to decongest the urban core and bring jobs and services closer to the people. Mpetula and her colleagues face two familiar impediments: money and politics. Like most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania is urbanizing while still poor.
Smaller economies mean less money for investments in housing and infrastructure. Moreover, while most East Asian cities grew alongside a manufacturing boom that created jobs, African industry remains stunted. According to government statistics, Tanzania, with a population of 60 million, had just 2. Under the populist President John Magufuli, who assumed office in , centralized control over Dar and other cities has tightened—in part, some critics say, to rein in local leaders who are often members of the opposition.
Property taxes and other streams of revenue that used to be collected by local authorities are now channeled through Dodoma, adding an additional layer of bureaucracy and further distancing citizens from the planning process. Magufuli, like Nyerere before him, has focused on development outside of Dar, shifting thousands of government jobs to Dodoma, and prioritizing rural roads and a high-speed railway from Dar to the capital that will eventually reach neighboring Rwanda.
He has also curtailed projects seen as wasteful or unviable, as part of a wider campaign against corruption. Other seemingly more viable projects have faced delays as well. North of the city center, the concrete shells of eight story towers, known as Kawe , sit half-built on a stretch of prime oceanfront property.
The project, developed by the state-owned National Housing Corporation NHC , is meant to kick-start development of a 50, resident satellite city—one of five envisioned in the draft master plan. Some believe Magufuli is reluctant to authorize the completion of a high-end project like this when demand for affordable housing is so acute.
He insists Kawe will still move forward. It will eventually include homes for a mix of income levels, he says. Over the last decade, towers of blue-tinged glass have transformed its downtown skyline; excluding South Africa, the city is now home to four of the ten tallest buildings in sub-Saharan Africa. Over time, investments driven by rising property values and the upgrading of some informal settlements have helped revitalize some of its poorest neighborhoods. Construction of a second line is expected to begin this year, with plans to scale up to six lines and stations by But it helped Dar win the global Sustainable Transport Award in and has also spawned new clusters of offices, businesses, and apartments, helping the city densify in a manner that better links people to jobs and industry to markets.
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