The owner occupier democracy and violation of building by-laws

Rukwaro, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.03.004

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“…Formal planning has failed to address the complexity of diverse cities, and particularly their informal and unplanned nature, leading to a proliferation of informal settlements with limited or no social services and public utilities (Okalebo, 2011;Rukwaro, 2009). Thus, Kampala has developed faster than the plan.…”

Section: Formal Planning and Permanent Impermanencementioning

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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

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This paper argues that planning in the Global South needs to be embedded within a more complex and systemic framework based on understanding cities' functions and transformations, at both local and regional levels, whilst advocating for and incorporating informal and temporary dynamics. This is to differentiate between two competing processes: formal planning and citizen-led place-making, here considered as a form of reactive alternative-substitute place-making that occurs when there is no available alternative. The paper calls for a better integration of such impermanent, adaptable, temporary and alternative forms of place-making into the planning process for regional futures.

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Section: Formal Planning and Permanent Impermanencementioning

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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

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“…Building construction should only start when and if approval has been granted. Rukwaro (2009) notes that the approval process is intended to ensure that the building being constructed meets certain minimum standards including those to do with the materials to be used. When construction of the building starts or is executed without first obtaining an approval, the development will be considered informal.…”

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The market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya

K'Akumu

Jones

Blyth

2010

Habitat International

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This paper reports on a study involving the market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya. Taking the point of view of exchange relationships within a market systems framework it maps out economic interactions involving actors in this market such as suppliers of raw materials, producers, marketers and users of artisanal dimension stone. This strategy enabled the study to understand the enabling environment for the production and use of artisanal dimension stone that is characterized by the following factors: a rising population that sustains the demand for the built environment products, a vibrant construction market, building regulations that favour the use of stone, availability of cheap and abundant unskilled labour and low standards of stone finish involved, availability of natural rock, a regulatory system that can compromise, lack of support by government institutions and an informal system of transaction that is non-compliant with conventional requirements such as labour and environmental laws but ensures ease of entry into the market environment. Such understanding brings potential for rectifying the negative perceptions about this market environment through policy development and change.

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“…Indeed, this is common in Kenya where 90% of the population identifies as Christian and 80% describe attend church at least once a week [32]. Half of the homes we visited were located in and around the Buru Buru estate, the largest middle class residential community in Nairobi ( Figure 1) [34]. All participants spoke English, Kiswahili, and in many cases spoke their "mother tongue," or local language (e.g., Kikuyu).…”

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Wyche

Smyth

Chetty

et al. 2010

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present results from a qualitative study examining how professionals living and working in Nairobi, Kenya regularly use ICT in their everyday lives. There are two contributions of this work for the HCI community. First, we provide empirical evidence demonstrating constraints our participants encountered when using technology in an infrastructure-poor setting. These constraints are limited bandwidth, high costs, differing perceptions of responsiveness, and threats to physical and virtual security. Second, we use our findings to critically evaluate the "access, anytime and anywhere" construct shaping the design of future technologies. We present an alternative vision called deliberate interactions-a planned and purposeful interaction style that involves offline preparation-and discuss ways ICT can support this online usage behavior.

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The owner occupier democracy and violation of building by-laws

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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

The market environment for artisanal dimension stone in Nairobi, Kenya

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