Английская Википедия:Embakasi Pipeline

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Pipeline is a slum-like neighbourhood in Embakasi in the city of Nairobi. Located within the larger Eastlands area of Nairobi, it is approximately Шаблон:Convert east of the central business district. It has earned a reputation for its poor infrastructure, coupled with overcrowded flats, narrow streets, littering, as well as its poor drainage system.

Location

Pipeline is located approximately Шаблон:Convert southeast of Nairobi's central business district, west of the Outer Ring Road within the Eastlands area in Embakasi. It borders another slum, Mukuru kwa Njenga, other low-income to low middle-income such as Fedha and Kware, and the middle class suburb of Imara Daima. Electorally, Pipeline is placed under Embakasi South Constituency; the whole constituency is within the Embakasi Sub-county.

Overview

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A section of Pipeline Estate

Pipeline Estate has over the years become synonymous with a concrete slum for its poor infrastructure and uncontrolled tenements.[1] Overcrowded high-rises set up side by side define the estate's skyline, narrow streets, poor drainage systems and poor garbage collection.[2] The estate attracts low-income earners because of its affordability.[3] The neighbourhood has seldom set aside open spaces that can be used for recreation, expansion of roads and development of social amenities.[4] As space in Pipeline ran out, uncontrolled development spread out to the neighbouring poorer Kware Estate.[5] The neighbourhood population is alarmingly high, accommodating approximately 100,000 residents without a single public primary school.[6][7]

As of 2019, Pipeline together with Kware have a population of 166,517, with 87,056 of them being male and 79,439 being female. The neighbourhood has a population density of 106,445/km2 in a land area of 1.6km2, the highest after Huruma and Madiwa.[8]

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