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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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nairobi, Kenya :
French Institute for Research in Africa,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Nairobi Today : |b The Paradox of a Fragmented City / |c edited by Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Nairobi, Kenya : |b French Institute for Research in Africa, |c 2010. | |
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| 500 | |a Translated from the French. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Town Life in Colonial Kenya; PART ONE -- Public Policy and the Informal Town; City planning in Nairobi; Public authorities and urban upgrading policies in Eastlands; Management of garbage in Nairobi; Water and the poor in Nairobi: from water apartheid to urban fragmentation; PART TWO -- Urban identities; Grey Nairobi; A microcosmic minority; Muslims in Nairobi; Pentecostalism in Nairobi; PART THREE -- Areas fragmented by power; Local Political System of Nairobi; 'A city under siege' | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Hidden CentzPolitical activism in Nairobi; Back cover | |
| 520 | |a 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 to their rural roots than to their current city status. It is a non-conforming town, which conceals its urbanity more than it claims it, and whose identity remains evasive. Nairobi presents itself as a mosaic of residential areas which bring to mind the cityís history. The racial segregation that st. | ||
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