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The conditional city: emerging properties of Kenya’s satellite cities

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  • Eline Splinter
  • Yves Van Leynseele

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Satellite cities in Kenya are driven by belief in economic growth driven by emerging middle classes and investors. As visionary policy objects they help inform national economic policies and spatial planning strategies such as Kenya’s Vision 2030. State and private investments required for their planned realization however remains elusive. This paper examines the emergent planning process of four satellite cities in Kenya based on interviews with key stakeholders and extensive document analysis. In their suspended states awaiting investment and development, these cities contend with ‘ordinary city’ dynamics. They start to articulate with changes in the political and institutional landscape and state-led decentralization initiatives. Our findings show how these cities represent an unwieldy blend of private and public elements that is shaped largely as a result of ‘statist alignments.’ In conclusion, we nuance the common conceptualization of satellite cities as planning contexts for expansion of neoliberal, speculative development and global city-making.

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  • Eline Splinter & Yves Van Leynseele, 2019. "The conditional city: emerging properties of Kenya’s satellite cities," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3-4), pages 308-324, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3-4:p:308-324
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2019.1661831
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    1. Austin Dziwornu Ablo & Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, 2022. "A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(3), pages 370-386, May.

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