John, Benjamin Mashalla2023-09-202023-09-202017http://repository.must.ac.tz/handle/123456789/93This thesis was published in the year 2017It is conceived that there are fairly adequate land development control instruments and regulations spearheading towards effective urban land developments in urbanizing areas of Tanzania. Yet there is visual evidence on the non-compliance to the governing legal framework when it is operationalized on ground. The urban authorities which act as custodians in all matters regarding urban land developments have proved a failure to accommodate the fast urban developments coupled with high urban population influx rate in urban centers. For instance in Tanzania there is a high rate of uncontrolled urban land developments in both planned and unplanned settlements within the jurisdiction of urban authorities. This study therefore seeks to investigate the performance of urban land development control measures in Tanzania amidst the presence of sound regulatory framework, programmes and projects focused at attaining sustainable and effective urban land developments in Tanzania. This study documents sensitive issues with the view of improving practical solutions to promote effective urban land development control in urban areas with a case study approach done in Mbeya city taking three units of analysis, two planned neighborhoods of Iwambi and Itezi and one old unplanned neighborhood of Iwambi. Both qualitative and quantitative data collection approach have been adopted, where most data taken and recorded from key informants are qualitative in nature. Moreover exclusive official interviews, questionnaires and field observations were instituted to supplement each other to achieve a sound data triangulation. Study findings show that there is ineffective urban land development control in Mbeya city due to poor institutional coordination, high building standards, bureaucratic logistics in issuance of construction permits, un-streamlined procedures on land delivery system, corrupt practices among vetted government officials, contradicting sections in enacted legislations, meagre resources towards implementation of effective urban land development control and unrealistic pace of the local governments in surveying and ultimately allocating planned and serviced plots amidst the unprecedented urban population growthenThesis