Part One 1. Colonial urban development : the problem stated 2. Towards a theory of colonial urban development 3. The social and cultural context of colonial urban development Part Two 4. The language of colonial urbanisation 5. Military space: The Cantonment as a system of environmental control 6. Residential space: the bungalow-compound complex as a study in the cultural use of space 7. Social Space: the hill station as a cultural community Part Three 8. Delhi: a case study in colonial urban development 9. The transformation of a pre-industrial city, 1857-1911 10. Imperial Delhi, 1911-47: a model of colonial urban development Part Four 11. Colonial urban development: some implications for further research

Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment

Urban expansion-flood damage nexus: Evidence from the Dosso Region, Niger

The connection between city development patterns, housing and service provision is critical as it affects allocation of scarce resources in the cities of Sub Sahara Africa, where the adopted planni...

Assessing the influences of service provision on pace and short and medium term development patterns of residential housing in Dar es Salaam

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/1979/2668/2/EshoPhDManuscript09.pdf

'The Mode of Extemporization': The Role of Informality in Reconstituting Formal Urban Spaces: The Case of Nakuru, Kenya ('Improvisatie als Modus': De Rol van informaliteit in het reconstitueren van formele stedelijke ruimtes: de casus van Nakuru, Kenia)

Land-use conflicts and in-optimal spatial patterns in Peri-urban areas of the city of Nairobi, Kenya

Urban flooding is becoming an increasingly severe and more frequent problem in African cities. The floods result into loss of lives and damages to properties in these urban places. Vulnerability to flood damages has been explained to be related to the manner in which urban settlements develop. Particular processes of urban development, especially in developing countries, where plans follow rapid urban growth, rather than direct it, have been blamed for the increased vulnerability to flood damage. Potential impacts of climate changes are expected to exacerbate this urban flood menace. This therefore necessitated a study of this nature so as to explore the dichotomous pathways in urban development process and how they contribute to the rise in flood damage. This would in turn enable us confront such processes through appropriate urban development planning framework.

http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1017/ijsrp-p7041.pdf

The Dual Pathways in the Process of Urban Development and their influence on Flood Damage in Kisumu City, Kenya

Flooding is becoming a predominantly urban event in recent times. However, the reason why urban areas are becoming places of flood risk has not been clearly understood. Even though past studies had explained the flood risk as a function of the natural and physical environment, more recent studies are now attributing the escalation of urban flood risk to the overall patterns of these areas. Different urban development processes yield dissimilar urban patterns, but how these disparate urban patterns within the same town configure flood risk has not been fully explored. This study attempts to fill this research gap and explores how development processes create urban spatial patterns and further examine how such patterns shape flood risk in Kisumu city. Keywords: Urban development, spatial patterns, flood risk.

Adoyo Laji

Papers

The Dual Pathways in the Process of Urban Development and their influence on Flood Damage in Kisumu City, Kenya

The Interplay between Urban Development Patterns and Vulnerability to Flood Risk in Kisumu City, Kenya