Informal settlements
A perpetual challenge?
Published on 6. January 2006
Book
320 pages
978-1-919713-94-6 (ISBN)
Description
Addressing the housing problem has been one of the key concerns in post-apartheid South Africa. The upgrading of informal settlements comes as a new addition in the revised housing policy, at a time when international bodies have prioritised the improvement of the lives of slum dwellers. This book deals with policy and national programmes, contextual challenges, the market and security of tenure, and city-level experiences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cape Town
South Africa
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-919713-94-6 (9781919713946)
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Marie Huchzermeyer is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she coordinates the postgraduate Housing Programme. She is the co-author of Informal Settlements: A Perpetual Challenge? (UCT Press, 2006).
Content
Policy and national programmes: Policy, data and civil society - reflections on South African challenges through an international review; the new instrument for upgrading informal settlements in South Africa - contributions and constraints; principles, bases and challenges of the National Programme to Support Sustainable Urban Land Regularisation in Brazil; informal settlements - infernal and eternal? The role of research in policy advocacy and urban informal settlements in Angola. Contextual challenges: Understanding the complexities of informal settlements - insights from Cape Town; clash of civilisations - reflections on the problems of upgrading informal settlements in Ethiopia, Kenya, Swaziland and Zambia; an HIV and Aids lens for informal settlement policy and practice in South Africa. The market and security of tenure: Barking dogs and building bridges - a contribution to making sense of Hernando de Soto's ideas in the South African context; forced evictions, development and the need for community-based, locally appropriate alternatives: Lessons and challenges from South Africa, Ghana and Thailand; market-driven evictions and displacements: Implications for the perpetuation of informal settlements in developing cities. City-level experiences: Informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town - Challenges, constraints and contradictions within local government; local governance and social conflict - implications for piloting South Africa's new housing plan in Cape Town's informal settlements; the local government challenge of healthy development in informal settlements especially in a time of HIV/Aids; slum upgrading in the complex context of policy change - the case of Nairobi.