Nairobi’s Informal Modernism
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Date
2005Author
Anyamba, Tom Tebesi
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A lot of literature on ur
ban development in developing
countries has entirely focused on the nexus between rapid
urbanization, Gross Geographic Pr
oduct (GGP) and poverty growth
with little research that demonstr
ates what this impacts on urban
sustainability especially with incr
easing slums in rapidly urbanizing
African countries. Available research has focused entirely on
increasing poverty level in urban
Africa and its mitigation without a
clear direction on what this means to slums improvement and urban
sustainability. This papers aims to
give a conceptual analysis that
will help to understand the dynamics of urban sustainability and
slums development. The historical
perspectives and current realities
of Kibera slums in
Nairobi are reviewed.