Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi

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Title:	Land use management challenges for the city of Nairobi
Authors:	Oyugi, Maurice Onyango K'Akumu, Owiti A.
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Urban Forum
Volume:	18
Issue:	1
Pages:	94-113
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	land use urban planning
External link:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02681232
Abstract:	This paper examines urban management focusing on sustainable land use planning in Africa with particular reference to the city of Nairobi, Kenya. First, it discusses urban land use challenges in Nairobi and planning attempts made over the decades. A diverse set of approaches to the management of socioeconomic and natural resources and human settlement developments have evolved at different times. The missing link in all this planning has been a lack of community participation. What Nairobi needs is not the reactionary plans that have characterized the city's landscape over the decades, but a more proactive approach to urban management. Such an approach involves an integrated process of planning, investment, maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructure through a visionary strategic plan embodied by cyclical processes of survey and situational analysis for project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Furthermore, a properly guided management schedule in the form of a participatory strategic plan should be employed for the resolution of conflicts over the resources used during and arising from land development processes. Bibliogr., note. [ASC Leiden abstract]