The Impact of Urbanization On Physical Planning of Kampala Capital City in Uganda. A Case Study of Nakawa Division-Kampala.

This chapter discusses the background of the study, the statement of the problem, purpose of the study, the objectives of the study and the significance of the study. 1.1 Background of the Study World population has grown exponentially in the 20th century from around 1 .6 billion in 1900— to around 6.1 billion today, with each additional billion people being added more rapidly than the last. The vast majority of this growth has occurred in the developing world. Tracing the historical roots of many countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Njoh, (2008;) shows that cities in these regions are more a product of colonial experience than economic influences as was observed in the rise of the capitalist society in the western world. Home notes that while the concept of the colonial city is still useful for the development of theory, all cities are in a way colonial they are created through the exercise of dominance by some groups over others, to extract agricultural surplus, provide services, and exercise political control. The city thus becomes an instrument of colonization and (in case of the European overseas empires) racial dominance. From the planning perspective, orderly and efficient layout of suburban areas was the aim that defined the practice and thinking of colonial planning in general and British colonial planning in particular. As cities grow, so must their infrastructure in order to provide citizens with the level of service to which they have grown accustomed. Planning future infrastructure needs is difficult due to reliance on complicated to predict data including growth rates and patterns, per capita usage, and commuter influx. Increasing water provisions to an entire city is no exception to this challenge and requires an accurate prediction of locations where people will settle, how much water they will consume, and how quickly the population will expand. By combining statistical data such as water consumption, population growth, rate of expansion of services and qualitative information including efficacy of different distribution systems and level of public education, this dissertation