Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Land Taxation Policy in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 1999) -
Land Taxation for Sustainable Development in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2000) -
Privatization of urban water service provision: the Kenyan experiment
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006)One of the services that have been poorly provided in the urban areas in Kenya is water and sanitation. There are many reasons, which can be attributed to poor provision of water and sanitation as undertaken by the local ... -
Privatization model for water enterprise in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of NairobiSchool of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, , 35 Marylebone RoadLondon NW1 5LS, Tel: +44 207 911 5000. E-mail: owiti.kakumu@yahoo.com, 2006)The world over, the role and eligibility of the state in the provision of water supply is increasingly coming into question. Policy makers and analysts are advocating the abdication of the state in favour of private ... -
How far are developing countries from the call of ecological tax reform? A review of environmental fiscal policy for Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of NairobiUniversity of Westminster, Marylebone Campus Rm. 221, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS, UK., 2006)The main objective of this paper is to determine whether the ecological tax reform paradigm that hitherto is employed by a section of industrialised countries as an instrument of environmental management has potential ... -
Sustainability prospects for water utilities privatization in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006)Privatization of water utilities is widely practiced in the belief that market forces may help achieve conservation as per the Dublin Principles (Fourth Principle). Kenya has adopted the privatization strategy with the ... -
Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi
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Non-compliance and formalisation: mutual accommodation in land subdivision processes in Eldoret, Kenya
(2006)Conflicts over land are central to Kenya's political economy. In particular, the displacement of indigenous inhabitants during the process of establishing settler agriculture and the association of dispossession and land ... -
Strategizing the decennial census of housing for poverty reduction in Kenya.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007)As the world gropes for an understanding of and solutions to poverty, one of its typologies that has come to the fore is housing poverty. Housing poverty afflicts developing countries in particular, and solving it may bring ... -
The political ecology of water commercialization in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007)Water is an essential commodity for human life. It is also a political and environmental good. The latter attribute makes it a suitable candidate for analysis in the context of political ecology. This is what this paper ... -
Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualisation of urban development.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Mainstreaming the Participatory Approach in Water Resource Governance: The 2002 water law in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2008) -
Reforming the statistical system of Kenya: policy implications for the development of building construction statistics
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2009)Kenya is in the process of reforming its national statistical system that has been catering to the various sectors of the economy including the building construction sub-sector. This paper evaluates opportunities that the ... -
Factor analysis of the marketenvironment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya.
(Urban and regional planning, University of NairobiDepartment of Property and Construction, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS, UKEducation Management and Infrastructure Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—OECD, 2, rue Andre-Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, France, 2013)This paper reports on a study involving the market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya. Taking the point of view of exchange relationships within a market systems framework it maps out economic ... -
Subordinationist Typology of Urban Development: Its origins and Manifestation in Nairobi
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2012) -
Colonial and modern Nairobi: the making of a master-servant city
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2009) -
Artisanal materials for sustainable construction in developing countries.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Irrigation Management Transfer in Kenya: the case of West Kano Irrigation Scheme
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2006) -
Water Sector Reform and Irrigation Practice in Kenya
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2004)