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Of urban economics and Nairobi city’s secret order

Across section of the Nairobi’s city’s Central Business District in 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard]

The city of Nairobi has a secret order; do not be distracted by matatu chaos. You can’t see that order from the streets but from the air.

The city has concentric circles that must have been deliberately designed, much like ancient city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

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