Somali refugees have developed a unique neighborhood with urban qualities– but also pronounced problems and deficiencies – that are hardly found in any other part of Nairobi. As a center of a hectic, efficient and very professionally run global trading network, which is providing all of East Africa with goods of daily needs, developed and built by residents with no legal status, and exhibiting an intense urban culture, Eastleigh is probably unique in its current form. Born of a need, a financial interest and a well-connected network of different players, Somali refugees are practitioners of spatial planning par excellence....