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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 ...
Factors determining land use development in the unplanned suburbs of Kisumu Municipality, Kenya.
(2015)
The paper demonstrated that land use development in the unplanned suburbs in Kisumu
Municipality is dictated by several factors. It covered three unplanned suburbs namely
Nyamasaria, Otonglo and Mamboleo based on Mixed ...
Harnessing Social Capital to Improve Food Security of Peri-Urban Households. Experiences from Kisumu City, Kenya
(Science and Education Publishing, 2019)
Although significant progress has been made in recent decades to reduce food insecurity in developing
countries, a larger percentage of the peri urban population still experiences food insecurity. The peri urban poor, as ...
A framework for inclusive transport planning in medium-sized Sub-Saharan African cities
(2017)
Cycling remains poorly integrated into urban transport in many sub-Saharan African cities despite its potential
to contribute positively to inclusive transport. Its active use in many medium-sized cities of the region has ...
Exploring the utility of the spatiallyconstrained accessibility measure in integrating urban cycling and land-use in Pune, India
(2013-09-12)
Urban cycling in many developing cities is greatly hindered by the physical barriers occasioned by the
dichotomous approach to urban land-use and transport planning. This divided approach to planning
engenders urban forms ...
Framing social inclusion as a benchmark for cycling-inclusive transport policy in Kisumu, Kenya
(COGITATIO, 2016-06-07)
Cycling in many cities of the Global South faces unending exclusion from street spaces despite the on-going transport
policy reforms. This exclusion worsens the marginalisation of the poor majority who use this mode. In ...