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
Beyond Web 2.0 : The Internet Of Things.
It seems like a chapter from a sci-fi book, but it is actually something that majority of us will live to see in our lifetime if we make it to old age, Some may experience the full version while others will see the basic elements of it. Its application in our everyday lives is beyond … 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
The Mystery that is the Standard Gauge Railway .
If you have not heard about the standard gauge railway and you are a Kenyan, Please go back to that hole that you were hiding in. Well despite all the negative news about the tendering process that has engulfed Kenya’s desire not desire but Need to have a standard gauge railway, It is a good … Continue reading
DO WE WANT VISION 2030? IF YES, LET US URBANIZE
Kenya’s vision 2030, in my opinion will remain a sitting or rather lame duck, if we keep doing business as usual. Like other developing countries in the global south we are faced with problems of unemployment, high population growth rate, food insecurity and also high income inequality not forgetting our pathetic excuse of democracy … Continue reading
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS: WHY DO WE ALWAYS SCORE AN E
Kenya is synonymous with poor disaster response and management that we need no rocket science to prove .Someone needs to take responsibility you ,me ,The Cabinet secretary ,The Vice President or even the president himself. Why are we that casual when handling emergencies and managing them when they by bad luck happens. We have never … 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
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
Organized crime: Case of The Kenyan Public Transport
Our dear beloved government failed to provide us with a public transportation system that worked and in came a monster in the name of matatus. The Liberalization of the Kenyan Transport sector has come at a prize that the public have to pay dearly if not through uncertain pricing mechanism then through death via grisly … Continue reading
PRAGMATIC URBANISM 