Short Presentation Of Housing City Tour Nairobi
Abstract
DWELLING ENVIRONMENTS OF NAIROBIIntroduction
The functional structure of Nairobi has its present condition,
state and location determined by the political and eco~omic
history. Various stages of deterministic periods can be said
to have' been the status as a railway town, a settler capital
and a colonial capital to the federal and national capital of
the independent Kenya nation. Prior to the railway town Nairobi
was partly forest, swampy and grassland.
Nairobi was chosen by the railway builders as a camp because
it was safe, offering a favourable topography and adequate
fresh water supplies. By 1898 a plan for Nairobi was sponsored
by the railway to cater for the railway workshops, offices and
residence for the staff and an element of commerce.
The railway plan used racial zoning as the functional tool.
The senior railway officers (Europeans) were accommodated on the
hill while junior (Indians) staff was situated near the marshy
areas. The commercial element was also differentiated between
European traders and Asian traders. The coolies were camped
east of railway station. The Africans were not legal residents
by then. But this did not prevent Africans from moving to
Nairobi.
In 1927 a settler plan for Nairobi was sponsored which recognized
Africans as a racial. entity with legal residence status
in Nairobi. Nairobi was then planned on racial grounds to suit
the in-tere!:?tof the colonialists. The town had zoned residential
areas in categories of:
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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