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Nairobi today : the paradox of a fragmented city /

Despite being a large capital city in Africa in terms of size and its regional role, Nairobi is an unrecognised entity. For the majority of its inhabitants, the capital of Kenya is a transit point rather than a dwelling place. Since its origins, Nairobi has been a city of migrants, more predisposed...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rodriguez-Torres, Deyssi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Dar es Salam, Tanzania : Nairobi, Kenya : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers ; French Institute for Research in Africa, ©2010.
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Public Policy and the Informal Town
  • City planning in Nairobi: the stakes, the people, the sidetracking / Claire Medard
  • Public authorities and urban upgrading policies in Eastlands: the example of `Mathare 4A Slum Upgrading Project' / Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres
  • Management of garbage in Nairobi: perspectives of restructuring public action / Mathieu Merino
  • Water and the poor in Nairobi: from water apartheid to urban fragmentation, the case of Kibera / Anne Bousquet
  • pt. TWO Urban Identities
  • Grey Nairobi: sketches of urban socialties / Danielle De Lame
  • microcosmic minority: the Indo-Kenyans of Nairobi / Michel Adam
  • Muslims in Nairobi: from a feeling of marginalisation to a desire for political recognition / Nathalie Gomes
  • Pentecostalism in Nairobi / Yvan Droz
  • pt. THREE Areas Fragmented by Power
  • Local political system of Nairobi / Winnie V. Mitullah
  • `A city under siege': formalised banditry and deconstruction of modes of accumulation in Nairobi, 1991-2004 / Musambayi Katumanga
  • Hidden $ Centz: rolling the wheels of Nairobi matatu / Mbugua Wa-Mungai.