Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / / Marie Huchzermeyer.
"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 h...
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | viii, 296 p. :; ill., maps. |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Cities with 'slums' |h [electronic resource] : |b from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / |c Marie Huchzermeyer. |
260 | |a Claremont, South Africa : |b UCT Press, |c c2011. | ||
300 | |a viii, 296 p. : |b ill., maps. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
520 | |a "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. | ||
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Squatter settlements |z Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Slums |x Government policy |z Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Housing policy |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Urban poor |x Housing |z Africa. | |
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