Abstract

This study explores how the evolutionary changes in Dodoma's urban administrative status from lowest to highest ranks in Tanzania have resulted in the emergence of Un - ecological urban land use and land cover changes, urban land degradation, and un-ecological urban villages in the locality of the newly established Dodoma National Capital City. The empirical evidence for this study has been drawn from interviewing 443 respondents in 17 wards and 56 sub-wards and through analysing Landsat satellite images of 1998, 2008, 2018 and 2022 years by semi-automatic classification plug-in (SCP) in Quantum Geographical information system (QGIS) software (version 3.12.3). The findings of this study revealed that built-up land hectares have increased by 60%, bare land hectares decreased by 23%, vegetation hectares decreased by 13%, and water hectares decreased by 1% between 1998 and 2022.

If Dodoma City persists in the same way up to 2030 without green building concepts and design, New urbanism and ecological modernization theories interventions it will lose the potential of being a resilient and liveable National Capital City. Sustainable development principles are recommended to be utilized in all the major development projects to be carried out in the city advert the situation.