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Tag Archives: nairobi
Pick of the Day: African Cities and the Evil of Global City Development Paradigms
By Renard Teipelke A critical discussion about “Global Cities” is neither new to this blog (see for instance 1, 2, 3) nor to the community of critical geographic research. However, our understanding of “Global Cities” and “Ordinary Cities” in the … Continue reading
A Sense of Scale – Part I
By Renard Teipelke I wanted to put a simple scale definition here, but I did not like what I found. What is scale with regard to cities? Generally, it is about size, dimensions, relationality. Particularly I am referring to scale … Continue reading
Posted in opinions
Tagged Cairo, density, extension, growth, infrastructure, Los Angeles, Manila, Megacities, metropolitan region, nairobi, scale, smart growth, urban design, urban planning, urban space
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Infrastructure Projects Concern Not Only Engineers
by Renard Teipelke From the end of 2008 until the end of 2012, the first ‘Superhighway’ in East Africa was constructed between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and the industrial satellite town of Thika in the Northern part of the Nairobi Metropolitan … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged highway, infrastructure, Kenya, Kenya Vision 2030, nairobi, participation, Thika, Thika Highway Improvement Project, THIP, urban space, vision
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The Vision, the Superhighway, and the Local Poor
by Renard Teipelke Kenya Vision 2030: “A national long-term development blue-print to create a globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by 2030, that aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged highway, housing, infrastructure, Juja, Kenya, nairobi, peri-urban, rent, Ruiru, speculation, Thika, urban development, Vision 2030
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Pick of the Day: Why Africa Should Be Wary of Its ‘New Cities’ – The Informal City Dialogues
Some scholars have gone so far as to call the New Cities “urban villages,” distinguishing them from a “normal” city that gradually grows and evolves over time. New City projects emerging in Africa are planned urban areas, usually on the … Continue reading
Places like, let’s say, highways?!
by Renard Teipelke Studying ‘streets as places’ through in-situ research is nothing new to social science. A classic in this regard is Doreen Massey’s work on the global sense of place with the example of Kilburn High Road in London. … Continue reading
Posted in opinions
Tagged corridor, fieldwork, highway, in-situ, Kenya, land use, methodology, nairobi, psychogeography, road, Thika, transect, urban development
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Urbaninform: Giving a Voice to Best-Practices from Informal Cities
by Valentin Schipfer Having introduced a blog on Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in my last post, I’ll present another new web-tool which serves as a communication channel for places, namely UrbanInform.net. It gives a voice to social investments in urban … Continue reading
Posted in opinions, pick of the day
Tagged architecture, city planning, informal settlement, Kenya, kibera, kibera public space project, kounkuey design initiative, nairobi, online-tool, Place Branding, self-organizing community, slum upgrading, social entrepreneurship, social place branding, sustainabiliy, urbaninform, urbaninform.net, web 2.0, web-tool
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