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SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF LAND VALUES IN NAIROBI, KENYA
Author(s) -
Kimani S. M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.1972.tb01173.x
Subject(s) - citation , geography , sociology , library science , computer science
General Background -. The City of Nairobi is situated at a point where the densely populated agricultural Central Highlands of Kenya merge into the extensive Athi Plains at just above 5,000 feet above sea level. Although founded as a Kenya-Uganda railway encampment some seventy years ago, the City has grown as a national capital to become the largest centre in the urban system of Kenya. A post-industrial and colonially-generated city, Nairobi has become the hub and core area of the country, a focal point for communication networks and the national nuclei for Kenya’s economic, social and political organisations (Fig. 1). According to the 1969 census, Nairobi’s population stood at about half-million people compared with a figure of 266,795 in 1962. Of the half-million inhabitants, an overwhelming majority (83.04 %) are Africans while the rest comprise Asians (1 3. I9 %) and Europeans