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DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT
Overview
Urban design is an institutionalized control of
spatial manifestations of human activities in a
market economy
synergies of activities:
mobility & informal economic activites
URBAN SPACE &
POVERTY REDUCTION (cont’d)
Design increases quality of life:
… [by providing qualitative space as collective wealth]
Strengthening
existing spatial
structure
• Dynamic, coherent,
and integrating
framework
• Co-productive processes
(Town/agriculture mix)
The unarticulated appendage
(undifferentiated sprawl)
Unarticulated appendage:
Bujumbura [Burundi]; village expansion [Ethiopia]
The ‘garden-city’ simulacrum (the gated satellite)
The Domain ‘jua kali’
2. Transformation/Requalification of Existing
Fabrics:
• Destruction of historic neighbourhoods
• Inner-city densification & gentrification
• Peripheral suburbanization
• Urban renewal (slum up-grading,
regularization, etc.)
• Informalization of inner-city areas
Destruction of historic neighbourhoods
Historic patrimonium
Traditional street [Zanzibar]; Gebel Barkal pyramids [Sudan]; Lamu [Kenya]
Informalization of city centre
3. Emerging Ecologies
• Urban agriculture
• The urban nature reserve
• Areas prone to natural disasters (drought,
flood, earthquake, etc)
Urban Agriculture
Kampala [Uganda];
4. Infrastructure Development:
Nairobi [Kenya];
Capacity of existing infrastructures