08995nam 2200577 450 991076689350332120231222033218.03-031-37408-8(CKB)29092699100041(MiAaPQ)EBC30975895(Au-PeEL)EBL30975895(OCoLC)1412620886(EXLCZ)992909269910004120231222d2023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHousing in African Cities A Lens on Urban Governance /Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, and Neil Klug, editorsFirst edition.Cham, Switzerland :Springer Nature Switzerland AG,[2023]©20231 online resource (252 pages)GeoJournal Library9783031374074 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Urban Governance of "Messy" Cities: Housing and the African City -- 1.1 Urban Governance, Housing and African Cities -- 1.1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.2 African Cities and Governance -- 1.1.3 Housing in African Cities -- 1.1.4 Themes Covered in This Book -- 1.1.5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Cleaving Open the Space to Advance Spatial Justice: Promoting Inclusionary Housing in Cape Town -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Inclusionary Housing: A Tool for Spatial Transformation -- 2.2.1 Origins and Objectives -- 2.2.2 Constitutional and Statutory Basis for Inclusionary Housing -- 2.2.3 Inclusionary Housing in South Africa -- 2.3 Ndifuna Ukwazi Inclusionary Housing Objection Strategy -- 2.3.1 The Objection Process -- 2.3.2 The Results of the NU Objection Strategy -- 2.4 Inertia for Transformative Change: Disjuncture Between Framework and Practice -- 2.4.1 Political Instability and Policy Uncertainty -- 2.4.2 Re-claiming Decision-Making Spaces: The Role of Civil Society in Driving Change -- 2.4.3 The Municipal Planning Tribunal as a Democratic Space -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Production of Scale Through Large Private-Led Housing Developments in Windhoek -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Production of Scale and Housing in Namibia -- 3.3 Housing in Namibia, and the Production of Urban Land Scarcity in Windhoek -- 3.3.1 The Housing Crisis -- 3.3.2 Windhoek, and the Production of Land Scarcity -- 3.3.3 Early Private Housing Estates and Expansion of the City's Boundary -- 3.4 The Three Housing Developments -- 3.5 Thinking Through Governance -- 3.5.1 Regarding the Governance of the Process of Production of Housing -- 3.5.2 Regarding the Governance of the Housing Development -- 3.5.3 Peaceful Separation, Violent Urban Form.3.5.4 The Expansion of the Surface for Further Scale Production -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Making Land 'Developable' for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Framing Literature -- 4.3 Gauteng Administrative and Policy Context -- 4.4 Housing Market Context -- 4.5 A Routinised, Intimate Land Development Process -- 4.6 Slowly Transforming Land Use Instruments: For Equity or Efficiency? -- 4.7 Tensions Around Temporalities of Township Establishment -- 4.8 Contesting Township Establishment: The Space of the Municipal Planning Tribunal -- 4.9 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Are Social Movements Achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos, Nigeria? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Interface of Urban Governance, Social Struggles and the Right to Adequate Housing: Conceptual and Theoretical Discourse -- 5.3 The Lagos Urban Development Trajectory and Housing Challenges -- 5.4 Social Movements and Claiming the Right to Housing in Lagos: The Nigerian Slum/Informal Settlement Federation -- 5.5 Tactics by the Federation for Claiming Their Right to Adequate Housing -- 5.5.1 Invited Spaces of Participation -- 5.5.2 Invented Spaces of Participation -- 5.6 Are the Federations Tactics Effective in the Quest to Achieve Their Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos? -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- 6 What Lies Inbetween: Self-Built Housing and the Struggle to Remain in Place in Dar es Salaam -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Housing and Neighborhood Self-Building as Forms of State and Citizen's Everyday Practice -- 6.2.1 An Enabling State with a Homeownership Bias -- 6.2.2 (State) Fragmentations and Contradictions Through Stalled Decentralization -- 6.3 Local Context: The Chamazi Neighborhood -- 6.4 Urbanization and Housing Self-Building in Chamazi -- 6.4.1 Traditional Self-Building -- 6.4.2 Co-operative-Based Self-Building.6.4.3 Build to Sell Self-Building -- 6.5 Politics of Formalization and Their Effect in Self-Building Modes of Practice -- 6.5.1 Strategic Articulations and Ambiguities -- 6.5.2 Insurgency, Sense of the City and Ability to Stay Put -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Beyond Funding Micro Property Entrepreneurs in Urban South Africa: Governance Innovation Through the uMaStandi Programme -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 South African Backyard Rental Housing -- 7.2.1 The Trajectory of Backyard Rental Housing -- 7.2.2 State Responses to Backyard Rental Housing -- 7.3 Innovative Urban Governance -- 7.3.1 Regulation and Urban Governance -- 7.4 The Case of uMaStandi and Its Role as Intermediary and Negotiator -- 7.4.1 The Projects -- 7.4.2 The Development Constraints -- 7.4.3 Relationship-Based Lending and uMaStandi's Roles in Planning and Construction -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Becoming 'Unlawful': Homeownership, Housing Bureaucracy, and the Production of Precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Contradictions of Housing Governance and Its Lived Affects -- 8.3 Homeownership at Last? Eastridge, Mitchells Plain and the Cape Town Community Housing Company -- 8.3.1 Period I: Of Ideas, Promises and Hopes (1999-2001) -- 8.3.2 Period II: Of Shocks, Failures and Attempts at Recovery (2001-2008) -- 8.3.3 Period III: Of Increased Threats, Insecurities and Fighting Back (2009-2017) -- 8.3.4 Period IV: A Devastating Impasse, the Invocation of Constitutional Law (2018 Onwards) -- 8.4 Housing Governance and the Production of Precarity: Concluding Reflections -- References -- 9 Governing Low-Income Housing Delivery in Mangaung -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Evolutionary Governance Theory -- 9.3 Mangaung's Governance Background -- 9.4 Housing Governance in Mangaung, 1994-2020 -- 9.4.1 Subsidy Allocation and Housing Delivery Figures.9.4.2 House Size and Infrastructure Standards -- 9.4.3 Regional Investment Decisions -- 9.4.4 The Housing Target -- 9.4.5 Failure of Cooperative Government -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Oversights, Omissions and Ownership Visions: State-funded Walk-up Housing in Johannesburg -- 10.1 Housing Delivery: Governance Across Scales and Actors -- 10.2 Experiences with Multi-storey Low-income Housing in SA -- 10.3 Introducing Fleurhof -- 10.4 The Emergence of the State-funded Walk-up Housing Model -- 10.5 The Vertical Walk-up Model: Visions and Realities -- 10.6 Lived Experiences of the Model -- 10.7 Responses to Problems Arising from the Model -- 10.8 Conclusions -- References -- 11 Why Housing Is Not Affordable in Kigali: A Fieldwork Analysis on How Urban Governance Inhibits Housing Affordability in Rwanda's Capital -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Affordable Housing Policy in Rwanda -- 11.3 Why Affordable Housing in Kigali Is Not Affordable -- 11.4 Affordable Housing Under the Rule by Aesthetics -- 11.5 The Rendering Technical of Affordable Housing -- 11.6 Affordable Housing Is More Than a "Beautiful Policy" -- 11.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 Stuck in Time: The Halted Lives of Housing Co-ops -- 12.1 Introduction: Halted Lives -- 12.2 Background: Egyptian Co-op Movement -- 12.3 Vacant Projects Stuck in Time -- 12.4 Governing Co-ops and Falling Out of Time -- 12.5 Surprise Afterlives -- 12.6 Conclusion -- References -- Index.GeoJournal library.Cities and townsRatings and rankingsSmart citiesCities and townsEffect of technological innovations onCity planningTechnological innovationsCities and townsRatings and rankings.Smart cities.Cities and townsEffect of technological innovations on.City planningTechnological innovations.307.76Rubin MargotCharlton SarahKlug NeilMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910766893503321Housing in African Cities3648672UNINA