The historical association between the planning of Kampala city and colonialism is unquestioned. The empirical observation indicates that the spatial structure of Kampala is partly a unique product of European colonial planning—their inherent ideas and principles. Scholars and analysts have largely ignored this important aspect in the assessment of planning of Kampala. This article attempts to fill the knowledge gap on the historical planning ideas and how the ideas were implemented in Kampala’s urban space. Through a descriptive and exploratory approach, and by review and deduction of archival and documentary resources, this article suggests two major factors including inter alia, the discovery of malaria and the germ theory, the need to reproduce ‘‘European type space’’ in Kampala affected planning and consequently, the urban structure of Kampala city in the first half of the twentieth century.
Philip D. Curtin , ‘‘Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa,’’ American Historical Review90, no. 3 ( 1985): 594-613.
2.
Andrew Byerley, ‘‘Becoming Jinja: The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town’’ (Doctoral thesis, StockholmUniversity, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Human Geography, 2005).
3.
Ibid.
4.
Barney Warf.Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. (Florida State University , Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006).
5.
Njoh, Ambe. ‘‘ Colonial Spatial Development Policies, Economic Instability, and Urban Public Transportation in Cameroon,’’ Cities14, no. 3 (1997): 133-43.
6.
Njoh, J. Ambe. ‘‘Colonial Philosophies, Urban Space, and Racial Segregation in British and French Colonial Africa,’’ Journal of Black Studies38, no. 4 (2008): 579-99.
7.
Sarin Madu, Urban Planning in the Third World: The Chandigarh Experience. ( New York: Mansell Publishing Limited, The H. Wilson Company, Bronx, 1982).
8.
Gideon Golany, ‘‘Validity of new town principles for the developing countries,’’ in Urban Innovation Abroad: Problem Cities in Search of Solutions , ed. Thomas. L. Blair.New York and London: Plenum Press, 1984.
9.
Robert Home, Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities , vol. 2. (London, 1997).
10.
Vincent I. Ogu, ‘‘Evolutionary Dynamics of Urban Land Use Planning and Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria,’’ Planning Perspectives14, no. 4 (2007): 347-68.
11.
Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. (Basil Blackwell, 1998).
12.
Leonardo Benevolo , The European City: The making of Europe ( Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993), 111.
13.
Henry Kendall , Town Planning in Uganda: A Brief Description of the Efforts Made by Government to Control Development of Urban Areas from 1915-1955. (London: Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administration, 1955). Most of the images (Kampala planning schemes) are obtained from this source.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ubos, Uganda Population and Housing Census. (Entebbe, National Census Office, 2002), 12.
16.
Kotsia Prabha , Urban Agriculture in the Formal Economy and Land Use Planning in Kampala, Uganda. (New York University , North York, Canada, 1993).
17.
John van Norstrand et al., Kampala Urban Study Final Report; Structure Plan: Part II. (Kampala, KCC1994), 245.
18.
Ubos, Housing Census.
19.
Uganda Protectorate, Uganda Census 1959: Non African Population. East African statistical Department, Entebbe1960.
20.
Kotsia Prabha, Structure Plan.
21.
Peter C.W. Gutkind, ‘‘Notes on the Kibuga of Buganda,’’Uganda Journal24, no. 1 (1960): 29-43.
22.
Nyakaana, J.B., H. Sengendo, et al. Urban Development, Population and the Environment in Uganda: The Case of Kampala City and its Environs. (Kampala, 2004).
23.
Vincent I. Ogu, Cities of Tomorrow.
24.
Andrew Byerley, Becoming Jinja.
25.
Hull, Richard. W.African Cities and Towns before the European Conquest. ( New York: Norton & Co., 1976 ).
26.
Shuaib Lwasa, Informal Land Markets and Residential Housing Development in Kampala: Processes and Implications to Planning. (Kampala, Makerere University, 2006).
27.
Kotsia Prabha, Urban Agriculture in the Formal Economy.
28.
Henry Kendall, Town Planning in Uganda. see also Shuaib Lwasa, Informal Land Markets and Residential Housing Development.
29.
Kotsia Prabha , Town Planning in Uganda, p. 52.
30.
Anthony D.King, Urbanism, Colonialism and World Economy (London: Routledge, 1990).
31.
William J.R.Simpson, The Maintenance of Health in the Tropics2nd ed. (London: John Bale, 1916). And Fredrick D. Lugard, Revisions of Instructions to Political Officers on Subjects Chiefly Political and Administrative 1913-1918. (London: Water Low and Sons, 1919).
32.
Fredrick D.Lugard, Revisions of Instructions to Political Officers on Subjects Chiefly Political and Administrative 1913-1918. (London: Water Low and Sons, 1919), 420.
33.
Philip D. Curtin , Urban Planning in Tropical Africa.
34.
Baker, C.J.Rats in Uganda and their relation to Plague . Rep. Med. Department Uganda, (1921): 38-41, 214.
35.
Hopkins, G.H.E. (Uganda Protectorate). Report on Rats, Fleas and Plague in Uganda. (Printed by the East African Standard Ltd, for the Government Printer of Uganda, 1949).
36.
Philip D. Curtin, Rats in Uganda, p. 608.
37.
William Simpson , Report on sanitary Matters in the East African Protectorate, Uganda and Zanzibar. PRO, CO 879/115, African1025, ( 1914): 9-10.
38.
Kotsia Prabha, World Economy, p. 23.
39.
To that effect, all ginneries in all towns were removed from the urban area to the peripheries.
40.
Henry Kendall, Town Planning in Uganda.
41.
Ibid.
42.
Mirams, A.E. ‘‘Town Planning in Uganda.’’ JTPI18 (1931): 26.
43.
Philip D. Curtin , Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning, pp. 594-613.
44.
Governor Gowers in a dispatch to the Colonial office, UK, dated January 7, 1929.
45.
Letter dated April 27, 1929, from the Ministry of Health to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
46.
Telegram dated February 28, 1929, from the Secretary of State to the Governor of Uganda.
47.
Mirams, Town Planning, p. 26.
48.
Ibid.
49.
Henry Kendall , Town Planning in Uganda, p. 22.
50.
Marjorie Mbilinyi , ‘‘City and Countryside in Colonial Tanganyika,’’Economic and Political Weekly20, no.43 (October 1985 ): 88-96.
51.
Philip D.Curtin, Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa, p. 612.
52.
Lusagga J.M.Kironde, The Evolution of the Land Use Structure of Dar es Salaam 1890-1990: A Study in the Effects of Land Policy (PhD Thesis, Department of land development, Faculty of Architecture Design and Development, University of Nairobi, 1995).
53.
J.L.L. Comhaire , ‘‘Urban Segregation and Racial Legislation in Africa,’’American Sociological Review15, no. 3 (June, 1950 ): 392-7.
54.
Robert K.Home, Of Planting and Planning: The making of British Colonial Cities. (E & FN Spon: London, 1997).
55.
Southhall A.W., and Peter W.Gutkind, Townsmen in the Making: Kampala and its Suburbs ( East African Institute of Social Research, Kampala Uganda, 1957).
56.
Lusagga J. M.Kironde, Evolution of the Land Use Structure.
57.
Taylor Nigel, Urban Planning Theory since 1945 (London: SAGE, 1998/1999).
58.
Henry Kendall, Town Planning in Uganda.
59.
Bijl H.J. Vander, ‘‘The Creation and Planning of Vanderbijl Park,’’Town and Country Planning15 (1947): 295-312.
60.
Patsy Healey, ‘‘A planner’s Day: Knowledge and Action in Communicative Practice,’’ Journal of theAmerican Planning Association 58 (1992): 9-20.
61.
Lord Lugard, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa. (London: Frank Cass, Reprint, 1965).
62.
Benjamin Hyman , ‘‘British Planners in Palestine 1918-1936’’ (PhD Thesis, University of London , 1994).
63.
William F. Banyikwa , ‘‘The Spatial Impress of Town Planning Practice in East Africa’’ (University of Dar es Salaam, 1989).
