LEADER 03318nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910790511603321 005 20230725061728.0 010 $a1-920541-62-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001132968 035 $a(EBL)991016 035 $a(OCoLC)821866195 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12278805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10705851 035 $a(PQKB)11631180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC991016 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL991016 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593061 035 $a(OCoLC)811407427 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001132968 100 $a20120622d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCities with 'slums'$b[electronic resource] $efrom informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa /$fMarie Huchzermeyer 210 $aClaremont, South Africa $cUCT Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-919895-39-6 311 $a1-306-01426-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. 327 $aPt. 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aSquatter settlements$zAfrica 606 $aSlums$xGovernment policy$zAfrica 606 $aHousing policy$zSouth Africa 606 $aUrban poor$xHousing$zAfrica 615 0$aSquatter settlements 615 0$aSlums$xGovernment policy 615 0$aHousing policy 615 0$aUrban poor$xHousing 676 $a307.336096 676 $a307.760967 700 $aHuchzermeyer$b Marie$01488250 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790511603321 996 $aCities with 'slums$93708504 997 $aUNINA