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- Title: Tensions Created by the Formal and Informal Use of Urban Space: The Case of Nairobi, Kenya.
- Author : Journal of Third World Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 285 KB
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INTRODUCTION This paper examines the tensions that have come forth as a result of the formal and informal use of urban space in African cities with special reference to Nairobi. The tensions referred to in this study may be explained in the wider theoretical framework of competing economies characterized by conflicts within them. Indeed, the conflict theory, (1) in what has been identified as a stratified economy (the formal in its superior position dating back to the colonial times and the informal in its inferior position from colonial times to the present), may help explain the continuing tensions in what should otherwise be seen as a national or one urban economy. Understanding the two forms of economy is akin to understanding a class system within a given society (the informal representing the working class and the formal representing the upper class, or to use Marx's terminology, "those owning the means of production"). The tensions and conflict for urban space, administrative recognition, and market position should be understood as an ongoing muzzling for a recognized economic position for each of the two.