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Transformation of Housing in Nairobi

Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)

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 ...
Architecture and planning under different political systems

Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)

This book was initiated at the beginning of 2013 by Sven Thiberg, the co-founder and former chairman of ARC•PEACE (International Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Respons - ibility). He then submitted an application ...
Participative Design for Urban Housing

Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)

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 ...
The Influence of the Tenure System to the Physical Environments in Nairobi’s Human Settlements

Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)

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 ...
The Role of Training Institutions in Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Kenya

Wayumba, Gordon (2015-05-19)

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 ...
Influence of House Form on Dweller-Initiated Transformations in Urban Housing

Makachia, Peter (2015-05-19)

Dweller-initiated transformations in housing are grudgingly being recognized as an alternative mode of producing dwellings in cities, particularly in the developing world. However, the environments generated are often ...
Housing strategies in Kenyan towns and dweller-initiated transformations-Case estates from Nairobi

Makachia, Peter (Association of civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, archtects and town planers, 2011-12)

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. ...
Design strategy and informal transformations in urban housing

Makachia, Peter (Springer, 2011-06-09)

Dweller-initiated transformations are mostly chided for their apparent locational spontaneity that is often at variance with functional and aesthetic objectives in formal housing design. This presumes speculator-driven ...
A cost modelling design strategy for Dweller- initiated transformations in urban housing

Makachia, Peter (Construction industry development, 2005-10-11)
A Historical Review of Land Tenure Reforms in Kenya

Wayumba, Gordon (2015-01)

Land Tenure is a collection of relationships which exist between members of a society by virtue of their occupation and use of land [Ezigbalike and Benwell, 1995]. These relationships are dynamic and change with cultural ...
Control of Energy in Offices in Nairobi

Makachia, Peter (Nairobi University, 2009)

Heavily glazed office buildings in the Kenyan Capital City Nairobi, common in recent times does not augur well for a micro and macro architectural environment. This has a consequent negative impact on energy use in ...
The Structure of Cadastral System in Kenya

Wayumba, Gordon (Journal of Land Administration in Eastern Africa, 2013-01)

The cadastral system2 in Kenya was established in 1903 to cater for land alienation for the white settlers. Since then, a hundred years later, the structure of the system has remained more or less the same despite major ...
The pastoralist’s parcel: towards better land tenure recognition and climate change response in Kenya’s dry lands

Wayumba, Gordon (2013-05-06)

Conventional notions of the ‘land parcel’ have been extended: previously unrecognized tenures including customary, nomadic, or communal interests are now incorporated into the concept. Technical tools including the Social ...
Accuracy Assessment Of Preliminary Index Diagrams (PIDS) From High Resolution Orthoimages In Kenya

Wayumba, Gordon (International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Studies, 2015-01)

Abstract: In Kenya, various types of cadastral maps are in use for land administration; the most famous being Registry Index Maps (RIMs) used in the rural areas due to their ease of production by simple surveying techniques ...
Mapping sugarcane biomass using remote sensing

Wayumba, Gordon (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009)

Monitoring biophysical features of sugarcane to estimate productivity of growing cane using groundbased crop cut techniques require immense time and equipment. Crop biophysical parameters from representative Mumias Nucleus ...
Architecture and planning under different political systems

Makachia, Peter (ARC, 2014)

This book was initiated at the beginning of 2013 by Sven Thiberg, the co-founder and former chairman of ARC•PEACE (International Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Respons - ibility). He then submitted an application ...

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