Housing demand in Nairobi city has exceeded her rapid population growth culminating in shortage, contributory to informal settlements, and now increasingly attributed to dweller-initiated transformation in formal housing. ...

Tenure has often been cited as the underlying reason for the wanting physical state that defines slums in Nairobi. The contrary view is that secure tenure would bestow physical environments befitting urban spaces. These ...

In African cities, people are peripheral to architectural processes despite the fact that those processes produce buildings houses that they use and interact with every day. Laypeople’s disengagement often produces socially ...

Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of a country. In Kenya, land issues are emotive and have dominated the debate since independence in 1963. Indeed, the struggle for independence from the ...

Dwellers in public housing undertake transformations that lead to compromised environments in housing neighborhood. Architectural strategies do not envisage this trends and this had led to questionable environmental ...