2024-12-22T14:23:25-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/54497621/we-live-on-that-knife-edge Nam Henderson 2012-07-31T10:16:00-04:00 >2012-07-31T10:15:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rf/rfv6s9inaeghfzq6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>He is one of the experts commissioned by the government to produce a "master plan" to overhaul the city's infrastructure. Singapore is his role model, and he favours big projects to clear slums and build bridges, roads and out-of-town settlements.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Joe Boyle visited Dar es Salaam, Tanzania one of the world's fastest growing cities.&nbsp;The dramatic influx has pushed the city's population up from roughly two million two decades ago to four million today, which has led to a huge growth in "informal settlements". As well as economic division in Tanzania's lop-sided economy, between a tiny super-rich elite and a vast poor majority.</p>