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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 ...
Resisting informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town: The battle between developmental and informal governance
(Academia, 2019)
The paper explores the peculiar politics of popular resistance to the upgrading of an informal settlement in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, following a major fire in 2017. The paper traces the politics around the response to ...