03318nam 2200613 a 450 991079051160332120230725061728.01-920541-62-4(CKB)2550000001132968(EBL)991016(OCoLC)821866195(SSID)ssj0000704631(PQKBManifestationID)12278805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704631(PQKBWorkID)10705851(PQKB)11631180(MiAaPQ)EBC991016(Au-PeEL)EBL991016(CaPaEBR)ebr10593061(OCoLC)811407427(EXLCZ)99255000000113296820120622d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCities with 'slums'[electronic resource] from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa /Marie HuchzermeyerClaremont, South Africa UCT Pressc20111 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-919895-39-6 1-306-01426-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.Pt. 1. The urban context in the new millennium. Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11 -- Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'? -- Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality -- Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria -- South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 -- Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi -- Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands? -- A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007 -- A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement -- Towards a right to the city."The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.Squatter settlementsAfricaSlumsGovernment policyAfricaHousing policySouth AfricaUrban poorHousingAfricaSquatter settlementsSlumsGovernment policyHousing policyUrban poorHousing307.336096307.760967Huchzermeyer Marie1488250MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790511603321Cities with 'slums3708504UNINA