Why Konza City became a failure from the start. An insight
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#MisplacedPriorities
1. Optimum Size.

Cities with 50,000 people have a big market to sustain 61 different kinds of retail shops

Cities with over 100,000 people can support jewelry/fashion stores, a university, a museum, a library, a zoo, a daily newspaper, AM and FM radio

👉Konza has 2,004 people
1. Optimum Size.Cities with 50,000 people have a big market to sustain 61 different kinds of retail shopsCities with over 100,000 people can support jewelry/fashion stores, a university, a museum, a library, a zoo, a daily newspaper, AM and FM radioKonza has 2,004 people
1. Optimum Size.Cities with 50,000 people have a big market to sustain 61 different kinds of retail shopsCities with over 100,000 people can support jewelry/fashion stores, a university, a museum, a library, a zoo, a daily newspaper, AM and FM radioKonza has 2,004 people
Where a City has no core population, it can attract both capital and people.

Case: Silicon Valley has 729,043+ foreign-born residents (37.4% of pop). Their spending power is $25.9 billion

Rwanda's $2B Kigali Innovation City is 7 times cheaper than Konza is underway already!
Where a City has no core population, it can attract both capital and people.Case: Silicon Valley has 729,043+ foreign-born residents (37.4% of pop). Their spending power is $25.9 billionRwanda's $2B Kigali Innovation City is 7 times cheaper than Konza is underway already!
Where a City has no core population, it can attract both capital and people.Case: Silicon Valley has 729,043+ foreign-born residents (37.4% of pop). Their spending power is $25.9 billionRwanda's $2B Kigali Innovation City is 7 times cheaper than Konza is underway already!
Where a City has no core population, it can attract both capital and people.Case: Silicon Valley has 729,043+ foreign-born residents (37.4% of pop). Their spending power is $25.9 billionRwanda's $2B Kigali Innovation City is 7 times cheaper than Konza is underway already!
Where a City has no core population, it can attract both capital and people.Case: Silicon Valley has 729,043+ foreign-born residents (37.4% of pop). Their spending power is $25.9 billionRwanda's $2B Kigali Innovation City is 7 times cheaper than Konza is underway already!
The magic of a great city comes from the enormous specialization of human effort there.

Not a Utopian dream of Central fumblers who have never built anything substantive in life.

Do you think any Company can host its servers in that grassland in 10 years?
Kenya does not have the discipline to put money where it matters.

We put money where it can be looted faster e.g. A Dam.

Check this typical looting budget

Konza: 0.9Bn
Flood Control: 38.5Bn
Health: 30.9Bn
Kenya does not have the discipline to put money where it matters.We put money where it can be looted faster e.g. A Dam.Check this typical looting budgetKonza: 0.9BnFlood Control: 38.5BnHealth: 30.9Bn
Kenya does not have the discipline to put money where it matters.We put money where it can be looted faster e.g. A Dam.Check this typical looting budgetKonza: 0.9BnFlood Control: 38.5BnHealth: 30.9Bn
Kenya does not have the discipline to put money where it matters.We put money where it can be looted faster e.g. A Dam.Check this typical looting budgetKonza: 0.9BnFlood Control: 38.5BnHealth: 30.9Bn
Kenya does not have the discipline to put money where it matters.We put money where it can be looted faster e.g. A Dam.Check this typical looting budgetKonza: 0.9BnFlood Control: 38.5BnHealth: 30.9Bn
More than money and land, you need proximity to knowledge centres and lower cost of people getting to the Proposed City.

There is no knowledge or intense cluster of competence to sustain a technology city in Konza

Kigali Innovation City is near people

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/rwanda-starts-construction-of-africas-very-own-silicon-valley-in-kigali
More than money and land, you need proximity to knowledge centres and lower cost of people getting to the Proposed City.There is no knowledge or intense cluster of competence to sustain a technology city in KonzaKigali Innovation City is near people https://face2faceafrica.com/article/rwanda-starts-construction-of-africas-very-own-silicon-valley-in-kigali
More than money and land, you need proximity to knowledge centres and lower cost of people getting to the Proposed City.There is no knowledge or intense cluster of competence to sustain a technology city in KonzaKigali Innovation City is near people https://face2faceafrica.com/article/rwanda-starts-construction-of-africas-very-own-silicon-valley-in-kigali
Lastly,

Henry Ford, with all the money, engineers, land and a river, could not recreate the Michigan of 1920s in the Amazon.

Despite running the River Rouge Complex (93 Buildings).

👉Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon?CMP=share_btn_tw
Lost cities #10: Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon

In the 1920s the US industrialist wanted to found a city based on the values that made his company a success – while, of course, producing cheap rubber. The jungle city that bore his name ended up...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon?CMP=share_btn_tw
I was at Mua Hills earlier today.

Do you know that was supposed to be part of the Nairobi Metropolitan Region?

On paper, Nairobi metropolitan covers approximately 32,000 km2
Nairobi (684 km2);
Kiambu,
Olkejuado,
Masaku &
Thika
What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa https://theconversation.com/what-a-failed-johannesburg-project-tells-us-about-mega-cities-in-africa-112420?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter
What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa

What a failed megacity project in Johannesburg says about similar ambitious ideas across the continent.

https://theconversation.com/what-a-failed-johannesburg-project-tells-us-about-mega-cities-in-africa-112420?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter
KES. 5.1 Billion for Konza Data Centre. Our data will be at Konza maybe we are looking at this baby the wrong way?

https://twitter.com/MichaelMburu_/status/1139165445225897984
Because Konza itself has less than 5,000 people. You can as well go pick your Huduma Number at Konza to create a Buzz. Sindio? 😂😂😂😂
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