TITLE:
Assessment of the Soil Information and Analysis of Related Land Constraints to the Selected Detailed Town Planning Schemes in Morogoro Municipal
AUTHORS:
Dickson B. Pori, Proches Msigula, Hussein Boniface Massawe
KEYWORDS:
Soil-Related Constraints, Sustainable Urban Development, Remote Sensing Applications
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.3,
September
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: In Tanzania, land use and planning are under the land authority. They are responsible for ensuring sustainable
land use and management in urban and rural areas. Nevertheless, lack of
adherence to the soil to detailed soil properties and land use constraints by urban
planners, urban explosions in different areas in Tanzania, particularly Morogoro have been a big
issue of concern as it poses danger to the environment and also to themselves as urban areas they are also vulnerable to land use constraints such as
flood, erosion, water logging, erosion hazards and rock outcrop. This study aims
to assess the available soil information and analyze land constraints
related to the Selected Detailed Town
Planning Schemes in Morogoro Municipal so as to address failures of the current
urban planning approach. Detailed soil information provided by the municipality
and literature of previous studies were accessed. A total of six land use constraints:
poor drainage and waterlogging, rock outcrop, erosion hazard, flood hazard,
soil depth and surface slope were analyzed in this study to map major land use
constraints in the study area. A geospatial analysis approach was used to
combine these constraints so as to map total land use constraints and asses the spatial distribution of the constraints.
Finally, detailed land use schemes accessed from the Morogoro land management
authority were digitized and overlayed on the constraints map. Detailed schemes approved in areas of Mkundi have shown to be a success as these areas have the
lowest land use constraints whilst areas of Kilakala, and Mlimani has been a failure due to high slope, erosion hazards and shallow soil, the middle part of Morogoro including the new Kingalu market have been a failure
and costly due to flood and water logging mitigations.