Housing in African Cities : A Lens on Urban Governance / / Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, and Neil Klug, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023]; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Ratings and rankings; Smart cities; Cities and towns - Effect of technological innovations on; City planning - Technological innovations
• Persona (resp. second.): RubinMargot; CharltonSarah; KlugNeil
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Housing in African Cities
• ISBN: 3-031-37408-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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