Abstract
Synthesis of human settlement layers in mbeya city in tanzania
Highlights
Singh (2009) defines human settlements as a place inhabited more or less permanently
The national population census conducted in the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) in 2012 revealed that the country was predominantly rural with 70% of the population and the remaining 30% reside in urban settlements
The research was conducted in Mbeya city which is considered to be rich with information of human settlements within planned and unplanned urban contexts
Summary
Singh (2009) defines human settlements as a place inhabited more or less permanently. The United Nations estimated that by the year 2015, two thirds of world population will be living in urban centres and cities. Such rate of urbanization is alarming in developing countries and poses serious questions on how to deal with issues of sustainable human settlements and adequate shelter for all. The construction policy of 2003 in Tanzania which raised this important issue of human settlements development has neither been adequate nor sustainable for both urban and rural human settlement layers (URT 2003). In rural human settlement layers the issue is not adequate stock of housing units but poor housing conditions as well as insufficient physical and social infrastructural services. Cities must have good physical and social infrastructure such as roads, drainage, water supply, electricity telephones, open spaces schools, churches, mosques, dispensaries and hospitals
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