The Thika Highway Improvement Project: Changes in the Peri-Urban Northern Nairobi Metropolitan Region

by Renard Teipelke

Theory and practice of high-capacity infrastructure projects are the major focus in the development of countries in the Global South. Aiming at a more fine-grained understanding of such projects, Renard Teipelke studies the Thika Highway Improvement Project (THIP) and its outcomes in the peri-urban Northern Nairobi Metropolitan Region. The THIP is a large transportation infrastructure project that expanded the dual carriageway Thika Road into an eight-lane...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658045388
• ISBN13: 9783658045388
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"