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Title:Management problems of Greater Khartoum
Editors:Sammani, Mohamed O. elISNI
Hadi Abu Sin, Mohamed el
Talha, M.
Book title:African cities in crisis: managing rapid urban growth / ed. by Richard E. Stren, Rodney R. White. - Boulder, Col. [etc.]: Westview Press
Year:1989
Pages:246-275
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:urbanization
municipal government
urban areas
Abstract:This chapter examines the urban management of Greater Khartoum, Sudan, in order to assess the effectiveness of the administrative response to pressing urban problems. The Greater Khartoum urban management system, initiated by the British in the late 1930s, comprises a three-tier system with neighbourhood councils at the bottom, town councils in the middle, and city councils at the top of the hierarchy. The mounting problems and constraints that are currently posed seem too complex to be readily surmountable by the present urban administration system. These problems include an unwarranted and uncontrollable urban growth, the extent of the city's squatter settlements, the recent unprecedented drought and desertification, which culminated in whole villages moving from the countryside into the capital city area, the shortcomings of the city administration's fiscal performance, the low viability of administrative units and coordination of services, a low level of popular participation, and a general inefficiency and incompetence of urban management personnel. These problems of urban management cannot be isolated from the current problems of the country as a whole, which are administrative, political, and economic in origin, and which need to be treated within an integrated development plan.
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