Land tenure in Namibia is regulated by a variety of Acts, some of which date back to as far as 1937, and some of which are

yet to be approved by Cabinet. This variety of Acts makes it difficult to evaluate the performance of land administration as a

whole, and the appropriateness of coercive instruments with regards to urban land tenure in particular. In this article we

evaluate how urban land tenure regularization practices are conducted in Namibia, and to compare new formal procedures,

Urban sprawl influences extends on large perimeters in which natural and agricultural spaces have a social value. Private market, in particular land market, does not allow their safeguarding. A public land use regulation must be implemented. It cannot be a zoning: it concerns the whole of ordinary spaces. We show that it is possible to use the spatial economy and landscape ecology tools, to draw a prospective for ecologizing the town planning