What’s a City? Reflections on Kenya’s City of Thorns
This lab is dedicated to the study of urbanization in Africa and the basic idea that there is something we call “the city.” But when you...
Regulatory reform: A cautionary tale
So we are in a period right now in which regulation—you know government oversight of key things like markets, environmental waste...
Is the Urban Sojourn a Myth?
When I worked as an urban planner in Kenya in the 1990s, I would often despair over the state of the city—particularly the mounds of...
