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Dr. Mary holds a PhD degree in Urban Studies and Planning. She is a professional with over 20 years of history in the Real Estate sector. She is skilled in Urban Planning and Management, Land Use Planning, Housing development, Coaching and Research. She is also a certified Professional Mediator. She is a registered member of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya.
She has been a lecturer at Kenyatta University, School of Engineering and Architecture, for about 5 years.
Dr Mary is the current Head of the Construction and Real Estate Management Department at Kenyatta University. She believes that best practice in the provision of services is putting clients or customers at the centre of all mapping and decisions – valuing them and working in consultation with stakeholders who would have input in improving service provision. She understands best practice to ultimately mean looking and striving to achieve relatively high standards in all areas of work while staying within effective working frameworks.
Published Papers
Mwangi, M. M. (2024). The Effectiveness of Land Use Administration and Governance on Controlling Urban Spatial Forms in Nairobi. Urban and Regional Planning, 9(1), 12-23.
Conferences
- 9 - 11/06/2021 Middleclass Urbanism; New Aesthetics of Difference and Detachment in Cities of the Global South (Denmark)
- 28/06/2017 Partnerships for Livable Cities, International Public Policy Association (IPPA), (Singapore)
- 19/05/2015 Planning for Impact (Town and Regional Planning, Sheffield University)
- 12/03/2015 Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) Conference; Reflecting on development: Global narratives, local realities (Sheffield)
- 25/02/2015 LSE Cities; An urbanising world: Triumph or Tragedy (London)
- 03/02/2015 LSE Cities; Understanding Cities in an Urban Age (London)
- 10.06.2014 Sustainable Development in the National Planning Policy Framework (London)
- 28.05.2014 Neighbourhood Planning in London (London)
- 21.06.2013 PhD Upgrade conference
Seminars:
- 24.06.2015 Making the case for a Southern perspective in Planning Theory
- 24.06.2015 Viva Survivor
- 27.01.2015 Seminar/Tutorial facilitation
- 27.01.2015 Large group teaching
- 04.06.2014 Exploring the Interaction between Local Education and Housing Markets
- 21.05.2014 Re-thinking Public Policy; why co-production matters
- 21/05/2014 Qualitative Interviewing for planning and policy analysis
- 26.03.2014 Revisiting ‘...isms’ and ‘...ologies’ – philosophies of research (Do they matter? How does one write them into a thesis or proposal?)
- 09.10.2013 Social Justice in planning (Planning Department, University of Nairobi)
- 22.05.2013 What use is Theory?
- 24.04.2013 Placemaking for creative economics
- 13/03/2013 Endnote training
- 20.02.2013 Writing a proposal
- 06.02.2013 Qualitative interviewing
- 12.12.2012 Reinventing discovery; open science and its promise for planning and public policy
- 05.12.2012 A new era of Urban Modelling
- 07.11.2012 Violence in/of home; gender, law and urban development
- 24.10.2012 Local knowledge for spatial planning
- 10.10.2012 Thresholds
- 27.09.2012 Group work and inter-cultural working
Chapter Contributions
Book title: Partnerships for Livable Cities (published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): Chapter title: Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi; Informal collaboration between developers and urban planners
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