Each day, thousands of passengers in Kampala depend on “Boda bodas” for fast, reliable, and flexible connectivity during their travel. To meet this need, city authorities across the globe are increasingly opting to work with neutral providers and urban planners to plan for equitable transport facilities and to readdress the general form of cities for […]
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For a long time, the government of Uganda has trekked a narrative to restore the rapidly depreciating wetland resources from investors and citizenry reclamation through ordering both parties to vacate these water catchment grounds. It was not until last month that the president of Uganda lifted the order only to favor investors who he appealed
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The fate of the capital of the pearl of Africa. The notion, “water is life” is gradually decelerating in the city center since a dream of a heavy rain is a nightmare to many. let’s remind ourselves about cities across the globe that have been designed to embrace livable and sustainable human settlement while putting
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A Stride towards achieving efficient and sustainable transportation systems. A Case of Channel Street – Kampala. If you want to tell a city’s character, walk its streets and visit its urban parks. In every city, public spaces are the podiums, “a stage” where the city’s identity is portrayed. They form the backdrop over which the
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Over the past decade there have been significant positive changes that will allow the paratransit sector to play a more constructive role in shaping the future of urban mobility in Sub-Saharan African cities. A brief reflection on four cases that may point us to the way forward In South Africa much has been said about
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