Housing in African Cities

Name: Housing in African Cities | A Lens on Urban Governance
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A Lens on Urban Governance

Margot Rubin Sarah Charlton Neil Klug(Herausgeber*in)

Springer (Verlag)

Erschienen am 28. November 2024

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XVII, 242 Seiten

978-3-031-37410-4 (ISBN)

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Margot Rubin is a Lecturer in Spatial Planning, School of Geography and Planning, University of Cardiff and is a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University, Johannesburg, where she was formerly an Associate Professor, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning. Margot has been writing about inner-city regeneration and housing policy, regional urban governance in the BRICS and is currently engaged in work around mega housing projects and issues of gender and the city. Rubin has over 30 publications of book chapter and journal articles on issues ranging from backyard accommodation to bureaucratic activism.

Sarah Charlton is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University, South Africa, and past Director of its research centre CUBES. She has worked extensively in the field of low-income housing in South Africa including in local government and the non-profit sector. Her research focuses on low-income housing policy and practice, state interventions in development, and people's lived experiences of cities. She is Research Associate of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University, and serves on the boards of several journals.

Neil Klug is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University, South Africa, and past Coordinator of the Master's program in Urban Design. He has also practised as an Urban Planning and Housing Consultant for over 30 years, largely in the field of low-cost housing and slum upgrading. He has published book chapters and journal articles on spatial planning, access to land and inclusionary housing, and on South African policy implementation in the field of informal settlement upgrading.

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Chapter 1: Reflecting on the housing lens and urban governance.- Section A: STATE AND COUNTER-STATE: DOMINANCE AND CONTESTATION.- Chapter 2: The quest to develop affordable housing: How Good Urban Governance depoliticizes the debate on housing affordability in Kigali, Rwanda.- Chapter 3: Interests and Contestation in Nairobi City Redevelopment and Housing Schemes.- Chapter 4: Are Social Movements achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos, Nigeria?.- Chapter 5: Becoming 'Unlawful': Homeownership, housing bureaucracy, and the production of precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town.- Chapter 6: Forced Evictions and the creation of the Lagos Mega-city.- SECTION B: STAKEHOLDER INTERFACES AND HYBRID ARRANGEMENTS.- Chapter 7: Navigating the ideological nexus between political and private interests: experiences on Inclusionary Housing from Cape Town.- Chapter 8: From Resistance to Reclamation: Insurgency in Khartoum's housing governancepost the Sudanese revolution.- Chapter 9: Urban governance, authority and citizenship: the dynamics of local formal and informal governance of housing in Delft and Alexandra.- Chapter 10: Intermediation by necessity: The case of uMastand.- Section C: UNRESOLVED RESPONSIBILITIES.- Chapter 11: Housing delivery, local governance and co-operative government in Mangaung.- Chapter 12: Housing Governance in the Gauteng City-Region.- Chapter 13: 'Complicit or collusion' - Politics of Access to Land and Space in the Urban Housing sector in Harare City, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 14: Urban governance: balancing strong institutions and powerful actors in the provision of affordable housing in Lagos, Nigeria.-Chapter 15: A state of inconsistency: SA's urban housing policy and practice.- Section D: OUTSIDE THE STATE: PRIVATE SECTOR AND NON-STATE ACTIONS AND THEIR OUTCOMES.- Chapter 16: Afterlives of Housing Cooperatives.- Chapter 17: What lies in between: self-built housing and the struggle to remain in place in Dar es Salaam.- Chapter 18: Emergence of Large-Scale Private Housing Estates and their Impact on Urban Governance and Morphology in Windhoek, Namibia.- Chapter 19: Social integration in the private sector driven housing developments in South Africa.- Chapter 20: Housing settlements in selected rural towns and townships in KwaZulu-Natal and their capacity to enhance the production activity of the economy.- Chapter 21: Turning Land into Stand: negotiating land transformations in developer-driven 'affordable' suburbs, Gauteng, South Africa.

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