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Steering Energy Transitions through Landscape Governance: Case of Mathare Informal Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya
(MDPI, 2020-06-23)
Poor households in urban informal settlements face a big challenge in accessing clean energy
for cooking, heating, and lighting. We use Kenya’s Mathare informal settlement as a landscape site to
better understand how ...
Enhanced role of private sector through public private partnerships in low income urban housing in Kenya
(Emerald, 2020-06-06)
Purpose – Low income urban housing in Kenya is underdeveloped as a result of uninnovative financing, hence the many slums and informal settlements in the country, hence the need for enhanced participation of the private ...
Tenure-Infrastructure-Livelihoods (T-I-L) Nexus in Slum Upgrading: an emerging Paradigm
(Africa Habitat, 2020-12-23)
The world is progressively moving towards linked up approaches, reinvigorated by the current emphasis on indivisibility in the global goals on sustainable development. However, a lot more remains to be done to fully realise ...
Architecture for The Urban Poor A Case of a Participatory Slum Upgrading in Nairobi, Kenya
(Africa Habitat, 2020-08-02)
Architecture in its broad perspective denotes both a process and a product. In the formal built environment, there are distinct mechanisms for engaging with the two dimensions unlike with the informal where the mode of ...
Sustainable construction literacy: a study of the Kenyan interior design market segment of the construction
(Africa Habitat, 2020-12-23)
Due to the widespread calls for the construction industry to adopt sustainable approaches, the various stakeholders are now engaging in the sustainability agenda more than before. This study investigated how the Kenyan ...
Towards adaptive standards for multi-purpose interior design in low-cost housing projects in Kenya
(Africa Habitat, 2020)
The Kibera Soweto East Housing Project was developed under the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP) whose main objective was to improve the housing conditions of the residents of Kibera through the construction of ...
Understanding Development Control Challenges in The City- Periphery
(Africa Habitat, 2020-08-02)
The development of the city-periphery is an inevitable consequence of urbanization in many developing countries, and acts as exit points for residents relocating from dense urban built areas, and entry points for rural ...
Challenges of county government property taxation in Nairobi City
(Africa Habitat, 2020-08-02)
This study evaluates the challenges of property taxation under the county government in Nairobi City. Property taxation, if well exploited, can be a major source of revenue at the county government level which is required ...
Origin of The Swahili Stone House and The Dual Nature of Swahili Urbanism
(Africa Habitat, 2020-12-23)
Swahili architecture is characterised by grandeur stone houses on one side and earth-and-wattle houses on the other. By considering the concept of transculturation as introduced by Felipe Hernandez et al. (2005), and ...
Stakeholder Roles, Perceptions and Behaviour towards Conservation of Riparian Zones in Nairobi River Basin
(University of Nairobi, 2020)
Stakeholder participation is key to the determination, use and management of riparian zones. International treaties, conventions and laws as well as the Constitution of Kenya of 2010 are very clear about the inclusion of ...