Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer.
2011
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer.
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Imprint
Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Description
viii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps
Formatted Contents Note
Pt. 1. The urban context in the new millennium. Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11
Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'?
Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality
Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria
South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014
Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi
Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands?
A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007
A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement
Towards a right to the city.
Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'?
Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality
Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria
South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014
Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi
Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands?
A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007
A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement
Towards a right to the city.
Summary
"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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1919895396
9781919895390
9781920541620 e-book
9781919895390
9781920541620 e-book
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