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Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huchzermeyer, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Squatter settlements--Africa.
- Squatter settlements.
- Slums--Government policy--Africa.
- Slums.
- Housing policy--South Africa.
- Housing policy.
- Urban poor--Housing--Africa.
- Urban poor.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 296 p.) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781920541620 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC:
- 811407427
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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