Urban Policy and Patterns of Low-Income Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

Bibliographic Data

ID4121410
AuthorsJoe Wamala Muwonge (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume6
Issue4
Pages595
Publication date1980-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1972928
OpenAlexW2009405949
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited1

Facing an inflow of rural migrants of major proportion the city of Nairobi is currently pursuing an ambitious program to develop new housing and to upgrade present housing for low income residence. This article analyzes residential mobility patterns in the low income zones of Nariobi in the context of the historical evolution of housing policy from the colonial period to the present. Urban policy appears both deliberately and inadvertently to have operated as a constraint on the choices of migrants both on their entry into the city and in their subsequent intraurban mobility. It is argued that the new sites-and-services scheme as presently constituted does little to relieve these constraints. (Authors) (Summaries in ENG FRE SPA)

Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Settlement (finance) · Socioeconomics · Finance · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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