Jackson Kago

Kenyatta University · Spatial Planning

Kenya has per capita milk consumption of 110 litters of milk per year, making the inhabitants the largest milk consumers in sub-Saharan Africa. The daily sector requires functional infrastructure adapted to weather conditions, as well as affordable and easily accessible means of transport. However, only 18% of Kenya's road network is considered to...

Google Street View (GSV) is a useful tool for providing a visual representation of the field setting, supplementing two-dimensional mapping data. GSV allows users to remotely access streets across the world, overlaying multiple images taken at different times, and identifying changes in locations over time. GSV images have been applied in various d...

Kileleshwa, située à cinq kilomètres du centre-ville de Nairobi, a connu une transformation immobilière phénoménale sous la forme d'appartements de grande hauteur remplaçant les bungalows initialement construits dans la région. Le quartier s'est imposé comme l'un des quartiers haut de gamme de Nairobi, alors principalement occupé par de hauts fonct...

Urban and rural areas are inter-connected through physical, economic, environmental and social linkages, and their boundaries are blurred. The interaction between the two areas is dependent on sustainable mobility that is anchored on resilient infrastructure. However, this interconnection is affected by barriers of mobility that limit effective int...

The Uplands Premium Dairies is a private company registered in Kenya whose main activities are milk collection, processing and marketing of dairy and related products under flagship brand “Pascha”, which it distributes to other parts of Kenya. The milk company currently collects about 75,000 litres of milk from over 5,500 small-scale farmers in Lar...

Land and soil are critically impacted by multiple use requirements. It is increasingly understood that the urban-rural metabolism and relationships are critically determining the in-/efficiency of land use practices. Thus, the following question has been emphasized: How can improved urban-rural linkages contribute to sustainable territorial develop...

This paper provides an insight on the opportunities provided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in advancing food systems within the context of urbanisation. To get a clear perspective on the opportunities posed by the NUA, the approach used involves an in-depth analysis of existing literature prior to and le...

https://journals.openedition.org/articulo/3719 This introduction highlights the paradox of the uses and regulation of public spaces by street trading reflected in two interwoven contradictions. The first contradiction is about the massive presence of street trade and the persistent ambiguous regulatory framework. The second contradiction deals wit...

More than 50 per cent of the world's population now lives in cities and large towns and this figure is projected to rise to 66 per cent by 2050. A proportion of this population is moving to urban areas are from rural areas, further increasing the food demand in cities. Another significant urban to rural shift has transformed the city edges in an un...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are good examples of the intimate relationship between urban and rural areas. Their compactness, factor of distance and contiguity of human settlements place small islands at the vantage points for enhancing urban-rural linkages. Many SIDS have a range of small and intermediate towns that play a critical role i...

The interconnection between rural and urban areas is growing. The large-scale urbanization and the implications of this type of development on rural areas calls for a renewed attention in fostering linkages between the urban, peri-urban and rural contexts. The limited land resources creates intense competition for different uses, including urbaniza...

Urban and rural spaces are inextricably linked economically, socially and environmentally and cannot be adequately dealt with one from the other. The need for consistent urban policies for urban to rural areas that involve local, regional and national actors are important for understanding and effectively addressing the complexities of people’s liv...

Small and intermediate towns are important to enhancing urban-rural linkages because they are often more accessible to rural populations and also act as a bridge between rural populations and large cities. However small and intermediate towns are struggling to manage urbanization, attract investment and meet the demand for housing, land, infrastruc...

The City of Nairobi has experienced an imbalanced settlement pattern that stems from the colonial period when the City was divided into areas occupied by the Europeans, the Asians and the Africans. The African community were further fragmented through divide and rule, so that Luos were predominantly in Kaloleni; Kikuyu dominated in Jericho. With th...