PROF LAWRENCE SALAON ESHO :: :: STAFF EPORTAL - THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA

Faculty:	ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
School:	ARCHITECTURE AND SPATIAL PLANNING
Department:	SPATIAL PLANNING AND DESIGN
Current Designation:	Associate Professor, ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING SCIENCE (DABS)
Office Telephone:	020-343672
Official Email:	info@tukenya.ac.ke
Consultation Hours:	08:00 AM- 05:00 PM , MON-FRI

Level	Qualification Name	Institution	Year
Doctor of Engineering (Dr-Ing)	Architecture/Spatial Planning	Catholic University of Leuven(KUL)(Belgium)	2008
Master of Architecture (M.Arch)	HUMAN SETTLEMENT	CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN(Belgium)	2003
Masters of Arts (MA)	PLANNING	UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI(Kenya)	1997
Bachelor of Arts (BA)	SOCIOLOGY	KENYATTA UNIVERSITY(Kenya)	1995

Period	Institution	Position
2019 - 2021	Technical University of Kenya	Academic Team Leader
2016 - 2019	Technical University of Kenya	Senior Lecturer
2009 - 2012	Moi University	Lecturer
2009 - 2009	University of Nairobi	Part-time Lecturer
2003 - 2008	Catholic University of Leuven	Research Fellow/Studio Master
1995 - 2008	Government of Kenya	Senior Physical Planning officer

Dr. Ing. Lawrence Esho’s broad scholarly field is Urban and Regional Spatial Planning. He has also developed interests in Urban Design, Urban Management and Infrastructure Planning. His specific research interests are in the area of urban informality, where he has critically explored the link between informality, urban space and urban planning. His research in these areas tempered by his background in sociology, consequently introducing an advocacy flair to his writings.

Title	Link to publication	Year
In Times and Space	View online
Lawrence Esho (1997). The Privatization of Solid Waste Services in Nairobi, Kenya Unpublished M.A Dissertation University of Nairobi (UON), Kenya	View online
Lawrence Esho (2003). Strategic Planning in Nakuru, Kenya: Localizing the SSP in the South” Unpublished M.A Dissertation. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium	View online
Lawrence Esho, Van Den Broeck, J & Verschure, H (2004)- Urban Development by Co-production in Loeckx, A, et. al. (Eds). Urban Trialogues: Visions, Projects & Co-productions: Localizing Agenda 21. UN-Habitat, Nairobi	View online
Lawrence Esho, Loeckx, A & De Meulder, B (2004) - Nakuru: Structuring Urban Natures in Loeckx, A, et. al (Eds). Urban Trialogues: Visions, Projects & Co-productions: Localizing Agenda 21. UN-Habitat, Nairobi	View online
Lawrence Esho (2009) - The Mode of Extemporization: The Role of Informality in Reconstituting Formal Urban Spaces: The Case of Nakuru, Kenya. Published Doctoral Dissertation. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium	View online
Gateri, Catherine, and Lawrence Echo (2013). New Towns, Land Values and Land Use Dynamics: A Case Study of Konza Techno City in Kenya. In 13th African Real Estate Society Conference. AfRES. Kigali, Rwanda: African Real Estate Society.	View online
Lawrence Esho and Robert Obudho (2016). Space as an Integrating Frame: Manifestations of and prospects for strategic spatial thinking in East Africa’s quest for integration, in Louis Albrechts, Alessandro Balducci and Jean Hillier (eds) Situated practices of strategic planning, Tylor Francis, London	View online
Bett, N., Mwasi, B., & Lawrence, E. (2020). Influence of Distance in Forest Utilization and Its Interaction with Neighbouring Communities of South West Mau, Kenya, Konoin Sub-County. African Journal of Education, Science and Technology, 5(4), Pp 121-131.	View online
Lawrence Esho (2020) Social Planning as a Pathway to the Just City, in Towards the Just City in Kenya, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kenya Office, Nairobi.	View online

Title	Institution
Fellow	Kenya institue of Planners,Nairobi
Registered and Licensed Physic	Physical Planners Registration Board
Corporate Member	Architectural Association of Kenya (TP)

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