Suburbanisation, homeownership aspirations and urban housing: exploring urban expansion in Dar es Salaam

TY - JOUR

T1 - Suburbanisation, homeownership aspirations and urban housing

T2 - exploring urban expansion in Dar es Salaam

AU - Andreasen, Manja Hoppe

AU - Agergaard, Jytte

AU - Møller-Jensen, Lasse

PY - 2017/8/1

Y1 - 2017/8/1

N2 - This paper offers an exploration of urban expansion from the point of view of the individual residents buying land, settling and living in new, rapidly growing peripheral settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The findings suggest that the demand for affordable housing is the primary motivation for residents moving to the periphery. The demand for self-built, owner-occupier housing is especially significant initially, while the demand for non-ownership housing increases in importance later in the process. Income-related motives, on the other hand, are strikingly absent from settlement considerations. Urban residents settle in the periphery, even though income-generation is often tied to working somewhere else, namely in the central parts of the city. The paper proposes that the processes of urban expansion depicted in this study are usefully conceptualised as suburbanisation processes, though it is a type of suburbanisation that has some peculiarities given the particular context, where expansion happens informally and largely unguided by planners.

AB - This paper offers an exploration of urban expansion from the point of view of the individual residents buying land, settling and living in new, rapidly growing peripheral settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The findings suggest that the demand for affordable housing is the primary motivation for residents moving to the periphery. The demand for self-built, owner-occupier housing is especially significant initially, while the demand for non-ownership housing increases in importance later in the process. Income-related motives, on the other hand, are strikingly absent from settlement considerations. Urban residents settle in the periphery, even though income-generation is often tied to working somewhere else, namely in the central parts of the city. The paper proposes that the processes of urban expansion depicted in this study are usefully conceptualised as suburbanisation processes, though it is a type of suburbanisation that has some peculiarities given the particular context, where expansion happens informally and largely unguided by planners.

U2 - 10.1177/0042098016643303

DO - 10.1177/0042098016643303

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0042-0980

VL - 54

SP - 2342

EP - 2359

JO - Urban Studies

JF - Urban Studies

IS - 10

ER -