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Understanding Kibera: Kenya's Urban Challenges and Solutions

Explore the case study of Kibera, Africa's largest shanty town in Kenya, to understand urban growth issues in LEDCs. Evaluate living conditions, infrastructure, and development solutions. Use provided resources for a comprehensive analysis in your document.

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Understanding Kibera: Kenya's Urban Challenges and Solutions

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  1. Kibera, Kenya: a case study • In today’s lesson you are going to put together everything you have learnt about global urban growth, the problems it creates in LEDCs & how these are being tackled. • On the following slides are a number of resources to use relating to Kibera, the largest shanty town in Africa, located in Kenya.

  2. Your task: • Read the resources & watch the short films. • Produce a document (PowerPoint perhaps?) to show the following: • Where is Kibera & what are its key characteristics (population size, areal extent etc) • What are living conditions like here –housing, sanitation, infrastructure etc? • How are these issues being tackled? • Evaluate the solutions you identify.

  3. The central business district (CBD) is at the centreThe better quality housing is around it - access to shops, cinemas, banks, offices.More good housing takes the best land - along a hillside or close to a beautiful view/park. Industry tends to develop in wedges along the main routes to the city. Older shanties have since been upgraded & have most essential services, e.g., clean water, sanitation & roads. Where do you find shanty towns? What are the problems and how can they be improved? Urban landuse

  4. Location of Kibera, Kenya Kibera

  5. Kibera

  6. Read the document & watch these short films • http://www.kibera.org.uk/Facts.html • http://practicalaction.org/video/view/toilets_kibera_ad/ • http://vimeo.com/1533939 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Y7ORnwnKI • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZWe33fToPo&feature=relmfu

  7. You might also like to see what another student has done… • http://strongie111.posterous.com/kibera • By the way, this goes on a bit – 7 minutes! • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibera

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