{"id":212605,"date":"2025-11-05T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-what-namibias-local-authorities-needfor-sustainable-urban-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:33:19","slug":"namibia-what-namibias-local-authorities-needfor-sustainable-urban-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-what-namibias-local-authorities-needfor-sustainable-urban-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: What Namibia&#8217;s Local Authorities Needfor Sustainable Urban Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s urban areas are expanding rapidly, yet local authorities often struggle to respond effectively for sustainable urban growth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">One key missing piece is localised digital cadastral repositories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A digital cadastral repository is an integrated, inhouse system containing property boundaries, land tenure, land value and land use data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Without such systems, urban planning decisions are frequently made with incomplete and outdated information, leading to inefficiencies, duplication and missed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511050076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s urban areas are expanding rapidly, yet local authorities often struggle to respond effectively for sustainable urban growth. One key missing piece is localised digital cadastral repositories. A digital cadastral repository is an integrated, inhouse system containing property boundaries, land tenure, land value and land use data. Without such systems, urban planning decisions are frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7215,6641,7823,4706,724,9052,52794,257,254,6059,8010],"class_list":["post-212605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-growth","tag-local","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-needfor","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sustainable","tag-urban"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}