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As floods threaten, Tanzania aims to build a megacity that works

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:15 GMT
Author: Kizito Makoye

DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania’s largest commercial city - one of the fastest-growing in Africa - has redrawn its master plan to try to become a megacity prepared for climate change, and not a city of worsening urban sprawl and flooding.

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