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 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.