Editing Nairobi (section)

===Post independence===
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Zicht op Nairobi met op de voorgrond het stadspark met tribune TMnr 20014416.jpg|thumb|Nairobi in 1973]]
Nairobi remained the capital of Kenya after independence, and its continued rapid growth put pressure on the city's infrastructure with power cuts and [[Water scarcity|water shortages]] becoming a common occurrence.

On 11 September 1973, the [[Kenyatta International Conference Centre]] KICC was open to the public. The 28-storey building at the time was designed by the Norwegian architect Karl Henrik Nøstvik and Kenyan David Mutiso. It is the only building within the city with a helipad that is open to the public. Of the buildings built in the Seventies, the KICC was the most eco-friendly and most environmentally conscious structure; its main frame was constructed with locally available materials gravel, sand, cement and wood, and it had wide open spaces which allowed for natural aeration and natural lighting. Cuboids made up the plenary hall, the tower consisted of a cylinder composed of several cuboids, and the amphitheater and helipad both resembled cones. The tower was built around a concrete core and it had no walls but glass windows, which allowed for maximum natural lighting. It had the largest halls in eastern and central Africa.<ref>[http://kicc.co.ke/about/ourhistory "Our History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307001156/http://kicc.co.ke/about/ourhistory |date=7 March 2017 }}, The Kenyatta International Convention Centre.</ref>

A year prior in 1972, the [[World Bank]] approved funds for further expansion of the then Nairobi Airport (now [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]]), including a new international and domestic passenger terminal building, the airport's first dedicated cargo and freight terminal, new taxiways, associated aprons, internal roads, car parks, police and fire stations, a State Pavilion, airfield and roadway lighting, fire hydrant system, water, electrical, telecommunications and sewage systems, a dual carriageway passenger access road, security, drainage and the building of the main access road to the airport (Airport South Road). The total cost of the project was more than US$29 million (US$111.8 million in 2013 dollars).<ref name="nairobiairport">{{cite web | title=Nairobi Airport Project | url=http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P001235/nairobi-airport-project?lang=en | publisher=The World Bank | access-date=7 August 2013 | archive-date=17 March 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317022637/http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P001235/nairobi-airport-project?lang=en | url-status=live }}</ref> On 14 March 1978, construction of the terminal building was completed on the other side of the airport's single runway and opened by President [[Jomo Kenyatta]] less than five months before his death. The airport was renamed [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]] in memory of its first president.

The [[Giraffe Centre]], an animal sanctuary on the southwestern outskirts of Nairobi, was opened in 1983. To this day, it breeds the endangered species of [[Rothschild's giraffe]].

The United States Embassy, then located in downtown Nairobi, was bombed in August 1998 by [[Al-Qaeda]] and the [[Egyptian Islamic Jihad]], as one of a series of [[1998 United States embassy bombings|US embassy bombings]]. It is now the site of a memorial park.<ref>{{cite web |last=United States Embassy |title=Quiet Memorials Mark Fourth Anniversary of Embassy Bombing |publisher=usembassy.gov |url=http://www.usembassy.gov/nairobi/wwwhrann.html |access-date=17 June 2007 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>