Participation as ‘city-making’: a critical assessment of participatory planning in the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi, Kenya

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI:10.1177/09562478231175031

Smith Ouma

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Abstract

This paper undertakes a critical analysis of participation as employed in planning for the Mukuru informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2017, these settlements were declared a Special Planning Area (SPA) by the Nairobi City County Government, which triggered a participatory process aimed at developing an integrated development plan for the settlements. The SPA process, examined here as a mode of city-making, is understood as a political project that was aimed at reorienting power relations in the city and redefining the conditions of urban citizenship. It enabled the entry of the inhabitants of Mukuru into official domains of participation from which they engaged with other stakeholders in identifying pressing issues within the settlements, leading to co-produced interventions. The paper examines how participation was understood and tested in the SPA, its transformative aspects and some pitfalls that undermined the process.

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参与“城市建设”:对肯尼亚内罗毕穆库鲁特别规划区参与性规划的批判性评估

本文对参与规划肯尼亚内罗毕穆库鲁非正式住区的情况进行了批判性分析。2017年，内罗毕市县政府宣布这些定居点为特别规划区(SPA)，这引发了旨在制定定居点综合发展计划的参与性进程。SPA过程，作为一种城市建设模式，被理解为一个旨在重新定位城市权力关系和重新定义城市公民条件的政治项目。它使穆库鲁居民能够进入官方参与领域，与其他利益攸关方一起确定定居点内的紧迫问题，从而共同制定干预措施。本文考察了参与是如何被理解和测试的，它的变革方面和一些破坏进程的陷阱。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.