Contents

• Saving Uhuru Park: The Imperatives of Maintaining Open Public Spaces in the Wake of Mega-Infrastructural Projects (Page 1)

Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Hadijah Yahyah & Muriuki Muriungi

• Critical Considerations in Mega Development Projects in Africa: Making the Public Voice Count (Page 4)

Eva Maria Okoth, Gino Cocchiaro & Mark Odaga

• Protecting Uhuru Park as a Public Open Space: Options and Implications (Page 23)

Collins Odote

• The Place of the National Land Commission in Management of Public Open Spaces in Kenya (Page 47)

Mwenda K. Makathimo

• When Urban Green Spaces Meet Infrastructure Development in Kenya: A Case of the Nairobi Expressway (Page 66)

Richard Mulwa

• EIA as a Tool for Balancing Economic, Social & Environmental Considerations in Infrastructure Development: The Case of Nairobi Expressway (Page 82)

Linda Kosgei & Marrian Mutete Kioko- Mutinda

• Promoting Public Interest Litigation in Kenya to Protect Public Open Spaces (Page 97)

Emily Kinama

• Case Review: Protecting Public Spaces under Kenya’s New Constitutional Dispensation: A Review of Petition No. 15 of 2018, Okiya Omtatah Okoiti V. National Land Commission (Page 119)

Clarice Wambua

• Book Review: Blazing the Trail: Professor Charles Okidi’s Enduring Legacy in the Development of Environmental Law (Page 127)

Reviewed by Angela Waki

• Book Review: Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa (Page 134)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Gitari