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- Title
Negotiating “Streets for All” in Urban Transport Planning: The Case for Pedestrians, Cyclists and Street Vendors in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Authors
Khayesi, Meleckidzedeck; Monheim, Heiner; Nebe, Johannes Michael
- Abstract
This paper uses the concept of “streets for all” as the analytical basis to critique the neglect of pedestrians, cyclists and street vendors in transport policy and practice in the city of Nairobi. The paper shows that transport planning in Nairobi has not adequately taken care of informal economy and non-motorized transport such as walking and cycling. This has resulted in competing use of pavements and roads, exposing pedestrians, cyclists and street vendors to insecurity and harassment. The paper calls for inclusive transport planning for multiple street activities, which requires implementing a “streets for all” policy. Such a policy needs to be critically pursued at the level of dealing with the institutional and structural bias in urban transport planning towards motorized traffic and the overall urban development that does not adequately consider the spatio-temporal activity pattern and the life of pedestrians, cyclists and vendors on the streets.
- Subjects
KENYA; NAIROBI (Kenya); AFRICA; TRANSPORTATION policy; STREETS; PEDESTRIANS; CYCLISTS; STREET vendors; SAFETY; KENYAN politics &; government
- Publication
Antipode, 2010, Vol 42, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00733.x