Developing of appropriate urban housing concepts in developing countries
The Modular Urban Housing Concept for Tanzania, MUHCT, is a practical example of the theoretical model which concentrates on ranges of activities in a logical and systematic way.
Structural Masonry Designers' Manual
This new handbook covers the main structural elements and forms of brick and blockwork, the application of reinforcing and post-tensioning and some of the authors' recent developments. A major feature is a series of step-by-step design examples of typical elements and buildings. The manual contains the following chapters: advantages and disadvantages of structural masonry; design philosophy; limit state design; basis of design (1): vertical loading; basis of design (2): lateral loading--tensile and shear strength; strapping, propping and tying of loadbearing masonry; stability, accidental damage and progressive collapse; structural elements and forms; design of masonry elements (1): vertically loaded; design of masonry elements (2): combined bending and axial loading; design of single-storey buildings; fin and diaphragm walls in tall single-storey buildings; design of multi-storey structures; reinforced and post-tensioned masonry; arches. Appendix 1 deals with materials, Appendix 2 with components, Appendix 3 with movement joints, Appendix 4 with provision for services. Appendix 5 presents tables of design loads. (TRRL)
Tanzania: Sites-and-services
Tanzania being one of the world’s poorest least urbanised countries, has and still is experiencing a rapid rate of urbanisation. The urban population is currently estimated to be growing at 9% per annum and the proportion of the popuIation living in urban centres increased from 5 % in 1967 to 9% in 1976. New census figures from August 1978 indicate the phenomenal increase in the population figures of Dar-es-Salaam which increased to 870,020 almost four times that of 1967 (1967 272,5 15 inhabitants; 1978 870,020). Both census and survey data indicate that the rapid growth of Tanzanian towns has almost always been the result of migration rather than natural population increase. Dar-es-Salaam is by far the largest city in the country, followed by Mwanza and Tanga, as Table 1 makes clear.