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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Claremont, South Africa :
UCT Press,
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| Online Erişim: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Özet: | "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. |
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| Fiziksel Özellikler: | viii, 296 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliyografya: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. |