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Slum Upgrading in Developing Countries: Lessons from Ghana and Kenya
(Department of Geography and Resource Development, 2017)
he proliferation of slums in many cities of the developing countries has been widely discussed in the literature as a great concern to most countries. The complexities of the slum problem make upgrading difficult. To help ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Determinants of SMEs growth (wood enterprises): Infrastructure, technology and collective efficiency
(Journal of Geography and Regional Planning, 2011)
Economic development is said to be dependent on industrial development. Industrialization is seen as
key in the promotion of sustainable development since it creates productive employment, generates
value added capital ...
Collective efficiency and its effects on infrastructure planning and development for small manufacturing enterprises in Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Public Management, 2011)
This paper explores the extent of use of collective efficiency among the wood enterprises in Kenya and
its effect on the infrastructure planning and development. Small manufacturing enterprises are known
to contribute ...
The role of urban parks and socio-economic development: Case study of Kisumu Kenya
(Research Center in Public Administration and Public Services Academy of Economic Studies, 2009)
Urban parks are now viewed as an important part of the broader structure of urban and neighborhood
development rather than just recreation and leisure facilities. While most of the world has recognized the
multifunctional ...
Mapping the spatial dimension of food insecurity using GIS‑based indicators: A case of Western Kenya
(Springer, 2022)
Food insecurity elimination is a major focus of the Sustainable Development Goals and addresses one of the most pressing
needs in developing countries. With the increasing incidence of food insecurity, poverty, and ...