JKIA and the evidence of city sprawl as far as Mlolongo,
Athi-River to Kitengela
Nairobi's Metro is increasing at overwhelming speeds. The urban living has forced its way down into formerly Maasai Grazing fields. This has seen the metropolitan area spreading towards as far as Isinya in Kajiado, From Kitengela to Isinya, this place has turned out to be an Industrial Area with thousands of Industries establishing base here. Twyford Ceramics opened the largest Ceramic industry in East and Central Africa some 8Km from Isinya towards Kajiado. At this rate, Kenya is going to experience the birth of the biggest urban Metro in Africa and Middle east.
This pictures shows the extend of developed urban houses from Embakasi towards Athi- River
1. From the Airport
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Mlolongo from the skies: The good thing with the Nairobi sprawl is that the houses are planned and gated communities. You can make out lines of industries one side and housing one side
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In Doni, beautiful estates are sprouting, but most importantly, you can see Outer ring road under Construction.
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At this point, the road will take an interchange as shown below
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Below are other birds eye view aerial shots of the sprawl around this area.
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In case you don't know what iis happening here or, wondering how those estates look like, i have provided a few of the estates below
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