Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Dar es salaam is a fastest growing city in the world with a total urban city area of 1590 km sq nairobi is 696 km sq tunabishana nn humu ndani
Hats uchukue nairobi + kisumu+ mombasa bado huwez kuipata area ya urban city iliyojengeka dar bado huipati, mombasa is 300 km sq kisumu is almost 200km sq tunabishana nin humu ndani my friends mambo yako wazi kabisa hata kipofu anaona
 
Dar kuna 10 strong telecommunications companies
Na kuna nyingine new one wanajenga HQ yao bagamoyo road inaitwa vietel company my frnds nairobi has 3 telecommunications companies inamaana bado tu akili hujawa nayo tu, au ndio vile hamupendi kushindwa tu......
 
New York ni 1213 km 2.
Dar ni 1590km 2.
so inamaanisha Dar Iko develop than NYC ?
 
BlietzKrieg said:
New York ni 1213 km 2.
Dar ni 1590km 2.
so inamaanisha Dar Iko develop than NYC ?
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Soma hapo majibu yako yote yapo hapo

The Bright Future of Dar es Salaam, an Unlikely African Megacity

Once isolated and overlooked, Dar es Salaam is on track to become Africa's fastest-growing urban center.


Currently a city of 4.1 million. Dar will likely grow to over 21 million midway through the century.Flickr/Andrew Moore
In 1957, in the waning years of British colonial rule, the then-unremarkable port city of Dar es Salaam sat on the coast of present-day Tanzania. It boasted a meager population of 128,000. Its humidity was relentless. Africa's independence era was getting underway, and many of Dar's neighboring cities had far glitzier exteriors with more modern infrastructure. Maputo, the capital of Mozambique to the south, would become known as "The Pearl of the Indian Ocean." Nairobi, 560 miles north in Kenya, would be referred to as "The London of Africa." Dar es Salaam, meanwhile, struggled to shake the English translation of its name—"the residence of peace." Tranquil, yet stagnant.

But recent years have brought unimaginable growth and change to Dar es Salaam. In terms of annual population growth, it's on pace to be Africa's fastest growing urban center. Its total population—currently about 4.1 million people—is expected to expand by more than 85 percent through 2025, according to the African Development Bank, and could reach 21.4 million people by 2052. It's likely to achieve 'megacity' status—10 million residents or more—by the early 2030s.


(Journal of Sustainable Development)
To put that expansion in context: New York City added roughly 4 million residents over the past 100 years. Dar es Salaam will add 21 million over a similar span.

CityLab has written about sub-Saharan Africa's other mushrooming cities. Tanzania is already one of Africa's most populated nations. By 2020, according to the U.N., Africa will become the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world. Dar es Salaam is at the epicenter of a perfect storm of demographic change: A cosmopolitan city in a population-rich country amid unprecedented regional urbanization.


(African Development Bank)
In other ways, the rise of Dar es Salaam is remarkable. For decades, urban development was actively discouraged by the state. City life, and its perceived individualism, was viewed with contempt by many of the country's socialist ideologues.


During the two-decade rule of Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere, Tanzanians were encouraged—or forcibly sent, in extreme cases—to live and work in rural villages. Under the title ujamaa, meaning "socialism" in Swahili, the nationwide farming program became Nyerere's most ambitious social program (it was structured partially after policies in Maoist China). Still, Tanzanians continued to arrive in Dar es Salaam seeking a more prosperous future. This prompted the government to go even further to quash rural-to-urban migration. In 1974, Dar es Salaam was stripped of its title as the nation's capital, and the parliament was moved to Dodoma, a small city in the hinterlands. This was partly to encourage economic activity outside the coastal region, according to a 2011 thesis presented to the Holland-based University of Twente, but also, "to deviate the relentless population growth in Dar es Salaam."
 
Majibu unayo alafu unauliza swali

New York City added roughly 4 million residents in the past 100 years. Dar es Salaam will add 21 million over a similar span

1985 when Nyerere resigned as president. Autarkic isolation subsequently gave way to liberalization. Dar es Salaam opened up for global trade and Tanzanians eking out a life on unproductive farms could largely move to the city without fear of reproach. But the city's reputation had been severely damaged, says James R. Brennan, associate professor of history at the University of Illinois.


"It's a fact that [Dar es Salaam] artificially pulled itself out of the running of major cities for a good couple of decades," Brennan, who was recently in Dar es Salaam doing research, says. "That kind of helped the Addis Ababas and Nairobis of the world get so far ahead in terms of international reputations."

Nationally encouraged antagonism toward city life also led to more local consequences: There was little precedent for urban planning, Brennan says. As the deluge of people heading for Dar es Salaam picked up in the 1980s, the city found itself woefully unprepared to accommodate them.


A look at how Dar es Salaam sprawled between 1975 and 2002.
(Fikreselassie Kassahun Abebe/University of Twente)
Dar es Salaam sprawled dramatically. Much of this was due to the expansion of informal housing. According to the U.N., 70 percent of city residents today live in informal communities. And with the population projected to grow by tens of millions of people in coming decades, some anticipate far more informal housing.


The orange shaded areas represent projected informal settlements in Dar es Salaam until 2052 (Fikreselassie Kassahun Abebe/University of Twente)
Yet, it's unfair—and inaccurate— to predict disaster for the city's future. Jonathan Kalan, writing in Foreign Policy in 2014, reminds us that large-scale informal growth in the developing world doesn't always translate to hardship.
 
City si bigger population...Huwezi compare Frankfurt na Lagos in terms of development
 
Mkuu mwambie huyo
 
Duu hio kali...lile daraja kwa kweli limetulia sana so beautful especially at night...kenya ndio wanajiaada kujenga la kwao..hao watanzania walio like hio ac ukute hawajafika na kujionea wenyewe..
 
You keep mentioning this 696 figure, Yes it is Nairobi's size, but Nairobi grew beyond its borders, Nairobi metro is huge, many people working in Nairobi live in this places, and commute daily to work. We obviously didn't shape our borders to fit this, but it still is Nairobi metro.
 
Scofied said:
ntarudi hapaa...but for my little uzoefu na opinion Nai is far better than Jiji letu la makonda....
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Nairobi wametuzidi Barbara zao pana na safi.upande wa Majengo nadhani tuko draw kwa sasa.pia tumewazidi sana ukarimu na utu kwa mbali.
 
BlietzKrieg said:
Infact too much population growth ni DISADVANTAGE.
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Ngoja nikufunze kitu population ya tanzania ni 50 mill, Kenya population is 45 mil sawa tuko pamoja, Kenya has high unemployment rate in the world of over 40% hapo bado hujifunzi kitu, nairobi is 4 mil, dar is 4.8 mil lakin nairobi has high rate of unemplyment unajua sababu uliza nikujibu
 
Mwanitu said:
Nairobi wametuzidi Barbara zao pana na safi.upande wa Majengo nadhani tuko draw kwa sasa.pia tumewazidi sana ukarimu na utu kwa mbali.
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Wewe usithubutu majengo yaliyo under construction sio mchezo kabisa kwanza dar has high no of buildings my friend
 
Hahhaha kumbe Google wanadanganya au sio, hahahaha mm naijua nairobi in out my friend hehehe huwez nidanganya kitu chochote nairobi kwa dar inaingia Mara mbili na nusu ndio nakueleza sasa
 
Annael said:
Do you know the impact of population in economy?
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Wakenya hua hawana historia ya kukubali kushindwa hata ashindwe vipi na hii yote hawaamini ndio ile dar kweli ndio kinachowaumiza kichwa wao wanaendeleza nairobi wakat city zao zingine ziko nyuma, sisi kila city tunajenga viwanda majengo vibaya mno we unaambiwa kwa takwimu mkoa wa pwani una viwanda vikubwa 83 viwanda vidogo viko zaidi ya mia mbili.
 
ichoboy01 said:
Hahhaha kumbe Google wanadanganya au sio, mm naijua nairobi in out my friend hehehe huwez nidanganya kitu chochote nairobi kwa dar inaingia Mara mbili na nusu ndio nakueleza sasa
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Am getting a vibe that you are a fool, I don't know, but it is a very strong vibe.
 
Mwenzenu kazidiwa mpka kaiba pic ya nssf Mwanza anadai iko Nai tukamdaka alikua kashaishiwa hahha majengo ni Yale Yale anaombwa new buildings anaiba picha Bahat mbaya sasa kaiba picha ya hukuhuku tanzania hhehhe
 
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