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Alleviating GaLa’s poly-mess; archetypal eco-ethical product design outlook
(2011)
The deplorable state of the environment has lately become a major issue nationally and internationally. A
major contributor to this sorry state is polythene (plastics). Towards better understanding of this issue, this
paper ...
Globalization and Regionalism: Complimentary or Antagonistic Paradigms
(2012)
Globalization widely denotes internationalization of economies, tastes, goods and services through
international exchange, economic, developmental and governmental systems. Meanwhile, regionalism is
a progressive phenomenon ...
Infrastructure Development in Global Economic Meltdown;
(2011)
The current global economic meltdown has major roots in real estate with the construction subsector
being a very important economic indicator but also reacting faster to a recession arising from the usual
resultant credit ...
Rental Value Trends in Commercial Real Estate Investments in Tanzania
(2012)
Real estate investment provides substantial diversification benefits for pension funds and other investors
in the short to medium term, against all odds of unpredictable shock waves of inflation rates and frail GDP
growth. ...
Riparian Zones in Nairobi City
(2012)
This article is a contribution to the current debate on the concepts of land use planning and riparian zone
conservation. It discusses some of the major theoretical and conceptual issues that impact on the
practice of ...
Form Making in Architecture
(2012)
Form making is one of the most important activities that the architect is engaged in when creating
architecture. During the process of form making the architect expresses the individual perceptions of
reality in tangible ...
Effects of globalization in training architectural design
(2011)
African architect unable to solve context-specific design challenges or explore context-specific design
opportunities that Africa offers. This paper analyses some of the basis of western training that have had structural
impacts ...
Developing resources for the training of architects
(2011)
individual level. Changing demands for the services of architecture within the building industry require that the
training of architects be tailored in a manner that conforms to these changing trends. In this paper, ...
Radiactivity and dose assessment of limestone samples from Kitui South Limestone Deposits-Kenya
(2010)
Activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K of limestone samples collected from Kitui South have been measured using Hyper Pure Germanium (HPGe) detector gamma ray spectrometry. A total of 48 samples were collected ...
Dissemination of architectural knowledge among research, training and practice
(2011)
Within the field of architecture, architects and scholars appear to have difficulty making sense of one
another’s experience and the relationship between practice and research is often uneven and unclear. In
addition, ...