Cities with 'slums' [[electronic resource] ] : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / / Marie Huchzermeyer
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Huchzermeyer Marie
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| Titolo: |
Cities with 'slums' [[electronic resource] ] : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / / Marie Huchzermeyer
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| Pubblicazione: | Claremont, South Africa, : UCT Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.336096 |
| 307.760967 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Squatter settlements - Africa |
| Slums - Government policy - Africa | |
| Housing policy - South Africa | |
| Urban poor - Housing - Africa | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cities with 'slums |
| ISBN: | 1-920541-62-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822128003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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