Satellite cities Tilisi, Tatu City and Northlands City offer an alternative, say developers, and will provide homes, offices, schools and recreational facilities for half a million people. But satellite cities are not without controversy. Tilisi, which lies 30 kilometres (19 miles) west of Nairobi, is the smallest of the four planned satellite cities. Cap said development of satellite cities encroachment was also taking away good agricultural land and depriving Nairobi of its source of cheap, affordable food. Nanji said Nairobi’s high rate of urbanisation meant that the farmland on its outskirts would sooner or later have been developed in an unplanned manner - which would be worse than having organised satellite cities.

Source: Standard Digital March 18, 2019 00:56 UTC