| dc.description.abstract | Urban centres are areas of interacting systems, namely the
activity system, the land development and the environmental
system. This interaction results to, various forms of land use
with their resulting impact on the environment. The fact that
these are centres of population concentration, people must
live and undertake their economic and social activities, in
some form of shelter.
Unless this urban growth is managed in a proper manner,
uncontrolled urban settlement is the manifestation. Urban
developments are expected to take place in a manner that is
guide~ by a proper planning policy and planning regulations.
The high incidence of unauthorised structures in the city,
drives one to investigate the picture behind the scene, that
is the actors and the factors that bring about this
uncontrolled development.
The study therefore, is an attempt to identify the factors
that drive developers to initiate previously unscheduled
constructions. It also tries to- uncover the various
weaknesses, characterising the planning authority with the
duty of overseeing development in the city. This is because ~ .
the agency t.~~-the institution, seems to be failing in its ", - .
duty, to guide development in the city. To get things into
perspective, the study focuses on Buru Buru estate in Nairobi .
It's cons~ruction started in the 1970s ending in the 80s, and
with its original plan highly distorted, it offered a good
case study.
The study applied a methodology, in which random sampling was
used for primary data collection. Secondary data from several
documents and publications was also extracted. | en |
