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Title:An overview of Kenya's urban development policy
Author:Kiamba, MakauISNI
Year:1991
Periodical:Review of Rural and Urban Planning in Southern and Eastern Africa
Issue:1
Pages:93-100
Language:English
Geographic terms:Kenya
East Africa
Subjects:urban planning
urbanization
urban development
Urban policy
rural development
Abstract:This paper briefly reports on urban development policy in Kenya over the last decades. By way of introduction a few observations are made with regard to preindependence urbanization, both in the precolonial and colonial era. Urban development policy in Kenya, in attempting to deal with polarized and primatic urban development and imbalanced rural-urban development, has shifted in emphasis over the last three decades. Initially, during the 1960s and 1970s, the regional development oriented approach to urban development emphasized the promotion of principal urban centres. In the late 1970s, this approach was seen as having done little to redress regional dualism and develop rural hinterlands. During the 1980s, attention refocused on the growing challenges of urbanization and the relationship between urban and rural development. It became more apparent that urban and rural development goals cannot be achieved in isolation from each other. Economic growth with social equity requires both accelerated agricultural development and expansion of industry and commerce. Greater attention was consequently given to diversification of the economies of small and middle-sized towns in conjunction with agricultural development. Conventional urban policy of the 1960s and 1970s was broadened from a narrow focus on the physical planning of a hierarchy of urban centres to a more comprehensive focus rooted in rural-urban interaction and the dynamics of economic growth.
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