Informality in the context of the urban spatial development of Dar es Salaam - A structural analysis of the development of the urban space

摘要

The thesis is concerned with examining the relation between the growing informal economy, expanding informal settlements in Dar es Salaam and examines the overall spatial development of the city. Fieldwork has been conducted as the point of departure of understanding the processes and structures influencing the urban development and the aspects of the informal economy and informal settlements. The fieldwork included semi-structured interviews with trade union officials, sporadic and structured interviews with shopkeepers and sporadic, unstructured and unrecorded interviews with residents in informal settlements in Mbagala and Manzese. The fieldwork is confronted with quantitative data and secondary empirical research in order to discover societal structures influencing the growth of the informal economy, the expansion of informal settlements and the spatial development of Dar es Salaam. The findings of the thesis brings forth the interrelated character of these structures, the coinciding factors driving the expansion of the informal economy and informal settlements and shows the dominating effects these aspects have on the spatial urban development of Dar es Salaam.