Nairobi | City Gallery

[tita01]

nairobi skyline is same size of cebu city , but nairobi is still progressive.

[royco mchuzi]

Originally Posted by Adm.Adama

Area needs a major touch-up and a BTR system so much chaos but great pics DAkta

I'm waiting for the time when govt will enforce the by laws.hizi buildings zimeparara.hope for a time when kenya will rapidly develop...and reinvent it self..this buildings should go down to pave way for high rise appartments....40flrs and more.jus like in china /singapore.I tell you the tycoons that are gona be bold enough to invest and build appartments in tao will get a killing.If i had good money id buy off a street in tao..say tomboya...au riveroad/kijabe st...build mega structures tranform the street crazily then just sit and reap the benefits

[Adm.Adama]

Originally Posted by royco mchuzi

I'm waiting for the time when govt will enforce the by laws.hizi buildings zimeparara.hope for a time when kenya will rapidly develop...and reinvent it self..this buildings should go down to pave way for high rise appartments....40flrs and more.jus like in china /singapore.I tell you the tycoons that are gona be bold enough to invest and build appartments in tao will get a killing.If i had good money id buy off a street in tao..say tomboya...au riveroad/kijabe st...build mega structures tranform the street crazily then just sit and reap the benefits

Kenya has ample space to house every citizen which some parts of china and Singapore don't have. Tycoons in kenya want to go the Tatu city way which is fine as it provides housing the to growing middle class but they are forgetting of the thousands who can't afford to live in a house and they shack up in slums which the government is addressing with the Kibera slum upgrading process. As other city centers in the country begin to boom we will see small villages be transformed to booming towns and low-rent housing available to all be we go the Singaporean way....

[royco mchuzi]

Originally Posted by Adm.Adama

Kenya has ample space to house every citizen which some parts of china and Singapore don't have. Tycoons in kenya want to go the Tatu city way which is fine as it provides housing the to growing middle class but they are forgetting of the thousands who can't afford to live in a house and they shack up in slums which the government is addressing with the Kibera slum upgrading process. As other city centers in the country begin to boom we will see small villages be transformed to booming towns and low-rent housing available to all be we go the Singaporean way....

kenyas middle class is growing..na no wonder we are seeing middle class moving to outskirts like athi ,kiserian etc.land is becoming scarcer and in long term not good for country to develop alll land.Like now all the highlands of central are being turned from farm land to housing estates...and grasslands too..encroaching on wildlife and all...these are resources once lost can never be recovered.controlled development is what i would love to see.H?ighrises should be built in cbd to take ease of pressure on farmlands and virgin land...and mind u makes houses more affordable to many would have loved to see a project like tatu city comming up in an old estate like kaloleni,mthuruwa and likes.
fOr the lower class projects like kibera upgrading.sure ka si siasa by now good chunk of kibera could have been ready for occupation.and developments like those in kahawa and zimerman should be regulated

[èđđeůx]

I agree with Royco, all land should not be developed. You have to take into consideration land used for agriculture and the land that's forested and just left to the wildlife. This should be the overwhelming majority of land (80%-90%), with 10% left to be developed (which is around the percentage of developed land in the UK, and higher than the total % in the U.S.).

I think a mixture of apartments + high-density houses/townhouses would be a good combination for Kenya. Nairobi seems to be moving more towards apartments due to land costs, read here:

Originally Posted by èđđeůx

Apartments in high demand as land prices shoot up
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/A...g/-/index.html

[èđđeůx]

Originally Posted by royco mchuzi

kenyas middle class is growing..na no wonder we are seeing middle class moving to outskirts like athi ,kiserian etc.land is becoming scarcer and in long term not good for country to develop alll land.Like now all the highlands of central are being turned from farm land to housing estates...and grasslands too..encroaching on wildlife and all...these are resources once lost can never be recovered.controlled development is what i would love to see.H?ighrises should be built in cbd to take ease of pressure on farmlands and virgin land...and mind u makes houses more affordable to many would have loved to see a project like tatu city comming up in an old estate like kaloleni,mthuruwa and likes.
fOr the lower class projects like kibera upgrading.sure ka si siasa by now good chunk of kibera could have been ready for occupation.and developments like those in kahawa and zimerman should be regulated

Agreed on the Kibera. A perfect example in Seoul though smaller is Cheonggyecheon, a river flowing through downtown, which turned into a slum in the 20th century as Seoul's population grew, but was modernized in the 1960s/70s, and restored and opened as a green public area in 2005. Images of pre-modernization:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wXiQY90PnT...0/btm5hprc.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AA8rcCxMB_...0/9kp3tmck.jpg

& the same area today with a riverwalk and large commercial buildings surrounding it:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n_mjbAJNYa...D0/s640/15.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JesSZ-La_4...gU/s640/17.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Se...%28xndr%29.jpg

[èđđeůx]

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[Adm.Adama]

[chui]

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[Mintali]

Originally Posted by tita01

nairobi skyline is same size of cebu city , but nairobi is still progressive.

Cebu is tiny, just the size of Mombasa

[Adm.Adama]

What happened to those huge digital tv screens that were on the street???

[mwanamwiwa]

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[donddon]

Originally Posted by èđđeůx

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by dl barrier

This part of Nairobi is an eye sore. Seems like it has been left behind with other parts having highrise buildings coming up. IMO I would rather they would have developed this area and stop with upper hill first.
If "space" was not available in upper hill area, investors would have been forced to buy this 5 storied buildings,tear them down and bring up some 20-30 floor highrises.Now that would transform the Nairobi skyline dramatically.

[èđđeůx]

They should get there eventually. It'd be cool if Nairobi's skyline was as expansive and large as Bangkok's someday:
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6...8760042h12.jpg

[Amboseli Daima]

Originally Posted by èđđeůx

They should get there eventually. It'd be cool if Nairobi's skyline was as expansive and large as Bangkok's someday:
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6...8760042h12.jpg

It all boils down to economics.Nairobi will get that expansive if & when kenya's economy equals Thailand's economy which is at least ten times that of kenya.

[Ras Siyan]

Will be in Nairobi in few days time

[èđđeůx]

Originally Posted by Amboseli Daima

It all boils down to economics.Nairobi will get that expansive if & when kenya's economy equals Thailand's economy which is at least ten times that of kenya.

2030!

[Adm.Adama]

Can an elevated monorail system work in nairobi??

[mwanamwiwa]

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Skylines of Nairobi by Rezwan, on Flickr

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Skylines of Nairobi by Rezwan, on Flickr

[Adm.Adama]

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More photos here, he has such a great photo blog
http://mutuamatheka.co.ke/blog/a-mobile-nairobi/