Uganda, April 25 -- The government has unveiled Uganda's maiden National Physical Development Plan (NPDP) to guide sustainable land use and development of viable, liveable and integrated cities and towns.

Derived under Vision 2040, the blueprint undergirding Uganda's development and budgeting, NPDP mainstreams economic and social considerations into spatial planning, which is the production of physical spaces for competing human activities.

The framework envisages integrated development of settlements, linked to work places as well as economic and zoned agricultural hubs, powered by supporting infrastructure, among them, roads, air, water and rail transportation.

According to the proponents, NPDP will use population and urbanisation ra...