Browsing by Subject "Housing"
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Informal land sale and housing in the periphery of Pointe-Noire
(GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2016)This article examines the relations between practices in informal land transactions under customary tenure and spatial differentiation among suburbs in the periphery of the city of Pointe-Noire, Congo- Brazzaville. Urban ... -
Informal settlement upgrading and safety: Experiences from Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2017)Informal settlement dwellers are disproportionately affected by ill health, violence and many other socio-economic challenges. These are largely connected to the unhealthy and unsafe physical conditions within which they ... -
Land for housing: A political resource – reflections from Zimbabwe’s urban areas
(Routledge, 2015)When the Zimbabwean government launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 1999, an international outcry followed, with Zimbabwe described as an international pariah state. Zimbabwe entered a prolonged ... -
Letting the numbers speak: Census 2011
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012)The South African Statistics Council has released the much-anticipated Census 2011 results. Its report provides relevant and timely information on a wide range of matters. This article focuses on those results that relate ... -
The politics of knowledge: Knowledge management in informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town
(Springer, 2015)t In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world. Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, ... -
Slum upgrading and inclusive municipal governance in Harare,Zimbabwe: New perspectives for the urban poor
(Elsevier, 2015)The story of the urban poor in Harare and Zimbabwean cities in general is a story of evictions, fear andmisery. In May 2005, at the behest of the Government of Zimbabwe the infamous Operation RestoreOrder, a house demolition ...