Based on extensive field work and documentation, the book provides a timely, comprehensive and scholarly examination of Tanzania's experience with growth centre planning. It discusses the salient features of Tanzania's growth centre and industrial decentralisation strategy and critically examines the post-independence industrial and urban development policies of the erstwhile Nyerere administration, identifying the primary factors accounting for their failure and poor implementation. It highlights the lessons derived from Tanzania's planning experience for other countries of Africa and the rest of the developing world. The Author: Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh, a Ghanaian, was until recently Professor of Geography at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economic Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 1971. His research interests are in locational analysis, regional planning, industrial development, environment and development with special reference to arid lands, assessment and control of desertification. He is currently Professor and holds the Chair of Geography at the University of Papua, New Guinea.