Kisumu’s Fourth Migration
Back in the 1920s when the planning profession was still in its infancy, thesprawl being as a result of the railroad and not the automobile that came to be the dominant causal factor of urban sprawl in cities globallylater, Lewis Mumford predicted how the fourth migration would define the new growth of cities where people … Continue reading
Kenya: The MDG report card.
Sometime next year the timeframe of achieving the Millennium development goals will come to a close, a lot has happened since 2000 when the goals were set, countries have had mixed reactions some doing much others less, while others never really got to start doing anything. This week marks a great milestone for my country … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Cities
Nairobi, like a bachelor love-struck not by one woman but two, He is courting modernity while on the side he is still flirting with the past. His heart torn between the two. He knows what he wants, which is a better future with modernity but due to some reasons he just can’t let go of … Continue reading
Made for cars and not People :How Our Cities are Getting it Wrong
“If car ownership is mandatory, [the place is] not urban.”Donald Baxter Africa, they say is the future, I don’t doubt that, looking at what we have managed to do with so little, What we have achieved amidst all the troubles and misgivings. We adopted the mobile phone with much bravado a number of years later … Continue reading
WHAT OTHER EMERGING CITIES/TOWNS SHOULD LEARN FROM NAIROBI?
Nairobi is the big bad wolf that eats almost all the meat after a successful hunt leaving other towns and cities to fight for the scraps. Well it is not its desire that things have turned this way, I am sure Nairobi would have liked to share its burden with Mombasa, Eldoret and the other … Continue reading
KISUMU ON THE WEB:TOP SITES AND FACEBOOK PAGES
As the rays of technology, more so the internet finally dawning on Africa more people getting to the web,techprenuers (technology based companies) coming up, I would like to acknowledge a number of people in my little piece of Africa (Kisumu City ,Kenya) who are working to make this city visible in the web.I tell you … Continue reading
KISUMU COUNTY SWOT ANALYSIS
The dust of the election finally settling down ,devolution becoming a reality as the county government slowly falls into place.Kenya’s next growth frontier lies in the development of the forty seven counties especially on the urbanization front.Well it has been documented and proved all over the world that Urban Primamacy is directly proportion to the … Continue reading
KONDELE OF TOMORROW AND THE FUTURE.
The bypass is coming along pretty nice soon the skyline of Kondele will have an overpass in addition to the already existing structures. This overpass is one thing as a planner that I believe, will change the face of Kondele for better. Kondele has always been associated with unruly gangs, riots , informal structures among … Continue reading
MINIMALISM IN URBAN PLANNING
Our governments are overly ambitious in their plans for what our future should be and if you look at the visual representation of such plans there is normally multi-lanes of highways snaking its way high up the ground of our cities. Big talk is always the norm, but looking at the problems in the ground … Continue reading
WHAT KENYA SHOULD DO FOR URBAN PLANNING IN 2013?
Let us face it planning in Kenya is in books and ambitious blueprints stacked in the documentation departments of most government and private agencies, I would say government as private enterprises will for sure implement their plans if they do indeed want to make profits and attract more equity among other factors. Africa is among … Continue reading
PRAGMATIC URBANISM 