'Our Changes'? Visions of the Future in Nairobi

Smith, Constance

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dc.contributor.author	Smith, Constance	de
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-10T09:19:44Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-10T09:19:44Z
dc.date.issued	2017	de
dc.identifier.issn	2183-7635	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/58407
dc.description.abstract	In Kenya, the Vision 2030 masterplan is radically reimagining Nairobi as a ‘world class’ city of the future. This has generated dramatic digital imagery of satellite cities, skyscrapers and shopping malls. For tenants in rundown public housing, these glossy yet speculative visions are enticing, but also provoke anxieties of exclusion. Yet so far, little has materially manifested. This article explores the effects these future vistas produce in the present, in the gap between the urban plan and its implementation. It argues that the spectacle of official planning has generated anticipatory actions, as Nairobians’ engage with the future promised by such schemes. These actions are characterised by dissonant temporal experiences, in which local residents experience the future city as both near at hand and forever out of reach.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung	de
dc.subject.ddc	Landscaping and area planning	en
dc.subject.other	Kenya; Nairobi; megaprojects; temporality; urban planning; visual culture	de
dc.title	'Our Changes'? Visions of the Future in Nairobi	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/834	de
dc.source.journal	Urban Planning
dc.source.volume	2	de
dc.publisher.country	PRT
dc.source.issue	1	de
dc.subject.classoz	Raumplanung und Regionalforschung	de
dc.subject.classoz	Area Development Planning, Regional Research	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;aDIS	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	31-40	de
internal.identifier.classoz	20700
internal.identifier.journal	794
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	710
dc.source.issuetopic	Urban Forms and Future Cities	de
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v2i1.834	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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internal.identifier.review	1
internal.dda.reference	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/oai/@@oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/834
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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