Informal settlement
A residential area developed outside formal planning and land-tenure systems — in Nairobi: Kibera, Mathare, Mukuru, Korogocho and others, housing a large share of the city.
They're systematically undercounted in volunteer map data, which means tools built on that data quietly leave them out.
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Where it comes up
- WP31Building Nairobi a Second Time: Notes From a Week of Shipping the Twin
- WP30Estimating What We Don't Know: A Confidence-Tiered Height Heuristic for Data-Sparse Cities
- WP28From the CBD to All of Nairobi: A Tile-Streamed Building Pipeline for a City-Scale Twin
- WP27The Twin Nairobi Doesn't Have Yet
- WP2Africa's Institutions Don't Have a Funding Problem
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