Date: October 28th, 2009

Slums, the enemy within: Part 1, Why it’s hard to begin with

28 October, 2009 (10:34) | Housing, Kibera, Rental, Slums, Theory, Urbanization | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
A while ago [Early September – Ed.], Kenya’s newspaper The East African Standard published a great and extensive series on the proposed upgrading of Kibera: Africa’s largest slum, which I visited in 2005.
 

The mud structures (in the foreground) will be replaced by the new housing units (in the background) in Kibera under [...]