Urban livelihoods, institutions and inclusive governance in Nairobi
Subtitle: 'spaces' and their impacts on quality of life, influence and political rights
By: Bob Hendriks
Publisher: Vossiuspers UvA - Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9789056296360
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government
Description: "This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty reduction and improvement of quality of life for Nairobi citizens can be realised in an equitable and responsible way, while contributing to development of the city and country. To adequately address this two-sided objective of economic growth and poverty reduction in the contemporary context, the study analyses both processes and impacts; moreover it examines impacts in terms of quality of life as well as influence and political rights. The study explores the individually claimed spaces of households in Nairobi's slums, the collectively claimed spaces of hybrid mechanisms for access to peri-urban land and tenure, and the invited spaces of city-wide governance networks."--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-355)
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Inclusive governance : spaces and impacts on quality of life, influence and political rights; title: 3. Methodology; title: 4. National institutional context; title: 5. Metropolitan institutional context; title: 6. Individually claimed spaces; title: 7. Collectively claimed spaces; title: 8. Invited spaces; title: 9. Conclusions.