The role of urbanization in slum formation at galkacayo, somalia.

ABSTRACT Now a day, slums are growing much faster than they have been in the past. Urbans become more hostile to the formation of slums due to the economic and social attributes of urbans, this paper tried to understand the role of recent urbanization has contributed to the formation of slums and informal settlements. The objectives of the research ware, Identify the relationship between low-income characterized urbans and formation of slums Identify the relationship between house-scares characterized urbans and formation of slums, Identify the relationship between urbans that is characterized with social service provision and formation of slums, and Analyze the rural migration patterns that contributed to the formation of Galkacayo Slums. A sample of 101 has been taken from a population of 1200 slums in Galakacayo,. Quantitative Descriptive family survey has been employed in the process. We found that there those with lower income had approached to the city. The families are attracted by the service available in the city. Availability of accommodations housing and places to erect temporary housing in the slums has also contributed to the formation of slums. All those factors contributed to the migration of the people either from other part of the city or from rural or even from another town of Somalia. Finally, this will contribute to the process of urban planning polices and procedure to incorporate usually unplanned settlement that can happen any time anywhere.