Main entry:

Rahbaran, Shadi, author.

Title & Author:

Nairobi, Kenya : migration shaping the city / Shadi Rahbaran, Mauel Herz ; edited by ETH Studio Basel ; Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron.

Publication:

[Zürich, Switzerland] : Lars Müller Publishers, [2014]

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Kibera: Formalized Precariousness -- From a Nubian Village to a Slum -- Economy of Space and Densification -- Independence and Clientelism -- Actors and Interests -- The United Nations and Ngos in Nairobi -- Urban Parallel -- Actors in the Local Economy -- The Blue Zone: Professional Migration -- Eastleigh: Refugee Migration -- 1st Avenue -- An Immigrant Neighborhood -- Architecture of Shopping -- A Global Trading Hub -- Limits of Growth -- Refugees as Spatial Actors -- The Architecture of Independence in Nairobi -- A Norwegian Architect in Kenya -- Constructing a National Identity -- Academic Excellence -- Globalization Avant la Lettre.

Summary:

Nairobi, in its short history spanning just over 100 years, has grown to be one of the most varied and international cities of our contemporary world. Migration has been shown as one of the key forces influencing the city. In the context of Nairobi's complex colonial and postindependence political trajectory, migration has reinforced ethnic, spatial, and economic differences, leading to the formation of multiple power structures. This process is evident in the city's radically different urban patterns. The book documents, along specific neighbourhoods, how different cultures of urban life constitute the city today.

ISBN:

3037783753 (hardback)
9783037783757 (hardback)

Subject:

Rural-urban migration Kenya Nairobi.
Urbanization Kenya.
Cities and towns Kenya Nairobi Growth.
Architecture Kenya Nairobi Pictorial works.
Exode rural Kenya Nairobi.
Urbanisation Kenya.
Villes Kenya Nairobi Croissance.
Architecture
Cities and towns Growth
Rural-urban migration
Social conditions
Urbanization
Migration
Stadtentwicklung
Städtebau
Urbanität
Society.
Nairobi (Kenya) History.
Nairobi (Kenya) Social conditions 21st century.
Kenya
Kenya Nairobi
Nairobi

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Herz, Manuel, author.
Herzog, Jacques, editor.
Meuron, Pierre de, 1950- editor.
ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285278
Call No.: BIB 224684
Status: Available