Nairobi today : the paradox of a fragmented city / edited by Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodriguez-Torres, Deyssi.

Standardized Title:

Nairobi contemporain. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nairobi (Kenya)--History.

Nairobi (Kenya).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

Dar es Salam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers ; Nairobi, Kenya : French Institute for Research in Africa, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite being a large capital city in Africa in terms of size and its regional role, Nairobi is an unrecognised entity. For the majority of its inhabitants, the capital of Kenya is a transit point rather than a dwelling place. Since its origins, Nairobi has been a city of migrants, more predisposed to their rural roots than to their current city status. It is a non-conforming town, which conceals its urbanity more than it claims it, and whose identity remains evasive. Nairobi presents itself as a mosaic of residential areas which bring to mind the cityís history. The racial segregation that st

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Town Life in Colonial Kenya; PART ONE - Public Policy and the Informal Town; City planning in Nairobi; Public authorities and urban upgrading policies in Eastlands; Management of garbage in Nairobi; Water and the poor in Nairobi: from water apartheid to urban fragmentation; PART TWO - Urban identities; Grey Nairobi; A microcosmic minority; Muslims in Nairobi; Pentecostalism in Nairobi; PART THREE - Areas fragmented by power; Local Political System of Nairobi; 'A city under siege'

Hidden CentzPolitical activism in Nairobi; Back cover

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613056337

9781283056335

128305633X

9789987081325

9987081320

9789987081202

9987081207

9789987102440

9987102441

OCLC:

816832072