Kaloleni Social Hall: From Kenya’s first Parliament to just an eyesore

The Englishman, Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), published the book Tomorrow; a Peaceful Path to Real Reform, (1898), which was a description of a utopian city where people lived in harmony with nature. The publication led to the founding of the Garden City Movement.

The idealised garden city would be self-sufficient, housing 32,000 people on a site of 6,000 acres planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards extending from the centre.