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Context and background Presently, one of the major challenges confronting the growth of rapidly urbanizing cities is the fact that, cities are growing in unsustainable form which is largely market-led growth and suffers from informal land market distortions. From a conventional point of view, planning aims at achieving compact growth. At the moment, The pervasive knowledge gap especially inadequacies in theoretical premises and polices on city forms and have contributed to mixed forms in many cities of the urbanizing world. Extensive literature expounding on practical problems related to ineffective planning interventions is also scanty. Goal and Objectives: This paper is an attempt to exploring the implications of urban land markets on the emerging city form, it aims at examining theoretical premises with regard to influence of urban land markets on city form transformation in rapidly urbanizing cities context. Methodology This paper drew empirical evidences from four (4) settlements located in broad acre policy areas in Dodoma National Capital City. Mixed approach was adopted in which both, qualitative and quantitative data were collected. Data were collected using official and household interviews, focus group discussions, measurements and observations. Results The study findings reveal that informal land buying and selling, informal plot subdivision and densification, informal change of land uses and unregulated land price inflations have contributed to the consolidated city form on areas closer to public services and Central Business District (CBD). The findings further reveal that there is sprawling city form in areas far from public services, infrastructure and CBD. As a way forward it is recommended that, there is a need to revisit policies, legislation and guidelines governing city planning towards agglomeration of settlement centres and provision of services and infrastructure. It is also recommended that there is a need to redevelop areas along main roads and identify areas for infill development and establish special guidelines advocating compact city development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
