The original 80's design always had the SQ at the front right next to the parking space for cars. This worked well with row houses. What many now prefer is the SQ at the back but accessible from the front through a walkway by the house or a covered (by a room) garage.

Spent the whole day making a bill of quantity and I feel like i have lost weight. 😅

City Council is the one that failed by licencing SQ's as shops. In those estates, shops were only meant to be at the corners / junctions. This is not a planning problem but an enforcement one.

That is why i included the word INTENTIONAL. Kenyans really love doing things fwaaaaaaa and then getting shocked at the results. We cut almost all trees on the streets for billboards. Everyone is shocked and wishes it was 1973 again Being fwaaa is not planning

The lesson I take from the SpaceX IPO is that the only thing stopping us from solving arbitrarily difficult problems is extreme creativity in business models. No amount of tax and spend programs got us reusable rockets and great electric cars. Customer delight is a necessary precondition for success. There seems to be some discussion around whether successful entrepreneurs should give up control of their companies so they can subsidize some philanthropic venture that otherwise has no value prop sufficient to run it as a business where customers voluntarily exchange money for goods and services at a competitive and reasonable price. This misses the point. Transformational products deliver tangible value at 1000x the rate of charities whose value cannot be tested in the market place. Think about the undeniable value of the smart phone, satellite Internet, electric consumer devices, etc etc. I think the transformational moment for SpaceX was when Elon stepped away from the philanthropic Mars greenhouse concept and fixed his resolve on unlocking radically better rockets for humanity. The greenhouse would have been, at best, a neat trick. Falcon and Starship give humanity a durable economic engine to maintain and improve access to space, forever.

The cabro being installed in Nairobi will never be completed. It is a forever Project designed to create hopeful chaos. Material everywhere, excavated dirt on footpaths etc. to create an illusion of a city that is under construction but in reality is to mask incompetence

Is there anyone documenting the work of great kenyan Architects like Dr. Rukwaro? One of the best teachers of the craft

Alita Tshamala ~ Ferre Gola x Josky Kiambukuta 🎸 #ARhumbaContinua

#MjengoElimu 📝

Kenya's older estates already cracked the code: 1. Build an extra rental unit from day one 2. Use income to ease mortgage pressure 3. Convert road-adjacent space into shops 4. Plan separate access to protect family privacy Why do we always FORGET Kenyan hacks? And we know very well if you can survive Kenya you can overcome any other place on earth? Intentional dual occupancy beats retrofitted stress every time.

Hopefully soon

Brick by brick👌

Below this concrete and asphalt there is very fertile soil which can support trees. We just need that one person in the right place. One day the trees will grow again and offer their shade to both motorists and pedestrians. That day will come. It must 📝🌳🌱

3.2 million Kenyans want to build. Only 47,000 will start this year. 8,000 will finish. Which group are you in?

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.