Somalia Experiencing Rapid Urbanization and Fastest Urbanizing Countires In the World

[Midas]

Honestly the decline in nomadic pouplation is proably the best thing for galmudug since the constant violence between subclans will probably stop.

Once we've got 60-70% of the pouplation in urban centers thats when the real social engineering can happen.

 

[Barkhadle1520]

Honestly the decline in nomadic pouplation is proably the best thing for galmudug since the constant violence between subclans will probably stop.

Once we've got 60-70% of the pouplation in urban centers thats when the real social engineering can happen.

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[Shayla]

There is zero urban design. The cities are awful.

No proper infrastructure, no building planning.

Crap.

 

[Idilinaa]

There is zero urban design. The cities are awful.

No proper infrastructure, no building planning.

Crap.

That's how urbanization began in most developed countries. You take care of functionality like housing, piped water, electricity, telecom, businesses, schools , hospitals etc first adressing peoples basic needs and then you can beautify and restructure the place later through investment.

Foundational infrastructure and services come first, and only later do cities get polished, planned, and “beautiful.”

This was Singapore for example.

Spoke about it before: Most of today’s developed countries also had either chaotic or ugly or unplanned cities during their early industrial phases (think 19th-century London, Paris before Haussmann’s redesign, or New York tenements). They weren’t pretty but they laid the foundations of modern urban life.

Many of the current western countries you see today, during early/mid 1900s tore down entire towns filled with ugly crowded industrial buildings that made things polluted, created slums and bad atmosphere and made way for better planned architecture and landscaping and building of new urban centers. In what is called ''urban planning reforms'' in Europe/Australia and ''City Beautiful movement'' in North America

Around 1900, urban planning models were created to mitigate the negative consequences of the industrial revolution by providing citizens

You are starting to see that transition happening across various Somali cities like Garowe, Hargeisa, JigJiga and Mogadishu currently

But this is usually the consequence of cities growing so rapidly , infrastructure and planning can’t always keep up with the population boom. Mogadishu is a clear example: its growth has been explosive, so the priority has been housing, water, electricity, schools, and hospitals first, with urban design and beautification to follow later

After many years of growth this is the makeover that is planned for Mogadishu through it's Development Corporation 2025-2029: New Mogadishu Project

Somalia Unveils the Blueprint for a Modern and Sustainable Mogadishu

By Abbdiqani Abdullahi Mogadishu (SONNA): Somalia stands on the brink of a transformative era with the launch of the “New Mogadishu Project.” This ambitious initiative promises to reshape the capit…

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For developing countries, pushing for “perfect design” before infrastructure is in place often wastes money and ignores urgent human needs. Once stability and services are in place, countries can afford urban design, zoning, parks, aesthetics, and transit systems. That’s why cities like Seoul, Singapore, or Shanghai only became sleek after decades of “messy growth.”

 

[Barkhadle1520]

There is zero urban design. The cities are awful.

No proper infrastructure, no building planning.

Crap.

There is actually, Mogadishu for the past decades has been expanding in a nice grid, feel like you're just complaining to complain

Compared to Hargeisa Urban planning isnt going to be that expensive for xamar

Hargeisa, Bossaso and Kismayo are the only cities I can think of that have absolutely horrible planning mostly due to the rapid expansion and terrain