Cities with 'slums' from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa /

"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 h...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Huchzermeyer, Marie
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011.
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Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Disgrifiad
Crynodeb:"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.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:viii, 296 p. : ill., maps.
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.