Browsing Department of Urban Management by Author "Emmanuel Midheme"
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Can Community Land Trusts Enhance Urban Land Governance in Kenya?
(N-AERUS, 2012)The struggle for land constitutes a major challenge in urban governance in Kenya today. The sheer pace of the country’s urbanization far outstrips the ability of conventional state and market mechanisms to accommodate ... -
Centering the Margins: Dispossession, Real Estate Speculation and the Politics of Place-Making in Peri-Urban Kisumu, Kenya
(TRIOITERATIVA.COM.BR, 2012)Long considered marginal in the production of knowledge on African urbanism, the peri-urban zone is fast becoming one of the most important sites of urban space production in rapidly transforming African cities. While ... -
Community-Based Land Tenure in Urban Kenya: Constructing a ‘new’ Property for the Poor?
(TRIOITERATIVA.COM.BR, 2012)Informal housing remains a big challenge in cities of the global South, particularly among low-income households unable to access land and housing through the formal state and/or market mechanisms. While public resources ... -
State-Vs. Community-Led Land Tenure Regularization in Tanzania
(Lap Lambert Academic Publ, 2012)The importance of security and certainty of land tenure among the urban poor cannot be overemphasised. A key justification for it is that tenure security provides incentives for investment in land and hence an impetus for ... -
Venturing Off the Beaten Path: Social Innovation and Settlement Upgrading in Voi, Kenya
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)Access to land in Kenyan towns is severely constrained by supply (Yahya 2002; Bassett 2005). The official land delivery processes premised on conventional state and market mechanisms have proved inadequate in coping with ...