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Informalising a planned neighbourhood in Nairobi
(2004)
Nairobi is in many ways an archetype of the African colonial city, having purely
colonial origins, which shaped its structure and management at the time of Kenya’s
transition to independence. In fact, Nairobi was born ...
Informal Urbanism in Nairobi
(2011)
Post-colonial Nairobi has experienced a rapid urbanization rate averaging 5 per cent per annum from 1963 to the present. The planning framework inherited from the colonial regime and little changed after Independence has ...
Nairobi’s Informal Modernism
(2005)
A lot of literature on ur
ban development in developing
countries has entirely focused on the nexus between rapid
urbanization, Gross Geographic Pr
oduct (GGP) and poverty growth
with little research that demonstr
ates ...