Rural-Urban Dualism and Ineffective Land use Control Instruments at the Rural- Urban Interface
Date
2008Author
Ayonga, Jeremiah N .
Obiero, Samuel
Type
ArticleLanguage
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The colonial policy of racial segregation in Kenya divided the space economy into urban and rural. The rural areas were resided by Africans and the main economic activities were agriculture and livestock, Settlement.s were scattered and organized around ethnic communities.The white settlers lived in the urban areas and the white highland~ respectively, Land use planning was introduced in the colonial settlements but was not practiced in the t\rric3n rural arras including the small markets,