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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Crecimiento y desarrollo urbano de Nairobi
Estudios de Asia y África, 1993 -
Marcela Taraborelli de Antonini
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Spatial Market Expansion and Real Estate Investment Performance in Nairobi County, Kenya
Research Journal of Business and FinanceNairobi County’s real estate sector is undergoing rapid transformation driven by urbanisation within a highly transitional metropolitan environment characterised by core congestion, escalating land prices in areas such as Kilimani and Upper Hill, and ...
Saida Ali Aden, Bernard Omboi
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Fluid authorities: Exploring hydraulic social contracts in Nairobi’s water provision
Water AlternativesThis paper aims to expand our understanding of the diverse relationships in water provision in cities such as Nairobi, where urban water is provided through heterogeneous actors and through piped and non-piped systems.
Maja Dahl Jeppesen
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Potential effects of urbanization on urban thermal comfort, a case study of Nairobi city, Kenya: A review [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2016 This study reviews the effect of urbanization on human thermal comfort over Nairobi city in Kenya. Urbanization alters urban center's land use and land cover, modifying the climate of the urban setting.
Ongoma Victor +2 more
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NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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