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Speculative Urbanism and the Urban Planning Process of Nairobi Kenya: A Case Study of the Southern Bypass.

Barasa, Topista N
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0405-8384
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618235575427567

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2021, Master of Arts, Miami University, Geography.
Foreign direct investment into the global periphery funds most of the large-scale infrastructural projects. The presence of foreign investments activates local capital invested in real estate, leading to urban transformation. Domestic investors' speculation in the land for urban production has created a new type of urbanism, termed speculative urbanism. The Nairobi Southern Bypass, Kenya, is a transportation infrastructure that brought forth land-use changes. This research has three objectives. First, it aims to determine changes that have occurred before, during, and after its construction. Second, the processes contributing to these changes, and third, what the transformations mean to Kenya's urban development. The analysis of interviews with real estate developers and planners fulfills the second and third objectives. Results from Google Earth Pro images (2002-2010-2018) of the four residential developments serving as case studies depict urban transformations that have occurred. A review of interviews reveals the availability of local capital investments into real estate by local capitalists. The land records indicate the privatization of land by the state and investors' financialization of the land for urban production. Further, the speculative urbanism framework partially unveils the changing urban morphology. Three recommendations provide a way forward for urban development and future studies.
Ian Yeboah (Advisor)
David Prytherch (Committee Member)
John Maingi (Committee Member)
61 p.
Geography
Speculative Urbanism; Foreign direct investment; transportation development

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  • Barasa, T. N. (2021). Speculative Urbanism and the Urban Planning Process of Nairobi Kenya: A Case Study of the Southern Bypass. [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618235575427567

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barasa, Topista. Speculative Urbanism and the Urban Planning Process of Nairobi Kenya: A Case Study of the Southern Bypass. 2021. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618235575427567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barasa, Topista. "Speculative Urbanism and the Urban Planning Process of Nairobi Kenya: A Case Study of the Southern Bypass." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618235575427567

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