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Opportunities In A Falling Market: What Has Been Happening At The Low End Of The Urban Land Market
(2009)
Falling land and property prices which have been experience globally since 2008,present both a challenge and an opportunity.What opportunities does such a market present to government,the private sector and to communities ...
Elemental content of PM2.5 aerosol particles collected in G¨oteborg during the G¨ote-2005 campaign in February 2005
(2009)
The Gote–2005 measurement campaign aimed at
studying the influence of the winter thermal inversions on
urban air pollution. Elemental speciation of PM2.5 aerosol
particles, collected on Teflon filters at three urban ...
Factor Cost indices Practices in Building Industry for Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction Volume 14 issue 3.
(2009)
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to look at the applications of factor cost indices in the building
industry in Nairobi, Kenya against the possibilities established through a review of the principles so as to
establish ...
Rainwater engineering
(University of Nairobi,, 2009)
This book describes four types of indigenous water retention structures used in East Africa. These structures are the Berkad tank, the Charco dam, sand wiers and hillside water retention ditches.
The Use of Contingent Valuation to Assess the Community Willingness¬to- Pay for the Conservation of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya'
(2009)
An estimate of the monetary value of Ondiri Swamp, an endorheic palustrine wetland, located lO km north-west of downtown Nairobi in a peri-urban environment was determined by establishing the monetary level or community ...
The owner occupier democracy and violation of building by-laws
(2009)
This research is based on a case study of Buru Buru estate, the biggest middle class residential estate in Nairobi, Kenya. Casual observations in Buru Buru estate show that there has been indiscriminate design and construction ...
The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping malaria prevalence
(2009)
Distance is important in access to health care, in turn a key measure of
attainment of Millennium Development Goals. The aim of this thesis was to develop
spatial models of access and utilisation of government health ...
Theoretical Underpinnings of Urban Sprawl;
(2009)
Urban managers and planners alike are concerned about the occurrence of urban sprawl in cities because of the myriad problems associated with such a phenomenon, First and foremost , urban sprawl takes place in prime ...
Sustainability of Research and Development:
(2009)
We share our experience on how to establish sustain
able
research and development based on successful collaborative
research between the Local Language Speech Technology
Initiative of UK and Kenyan partner - Teknobyte ...