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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Hoofdauteur: Huchzermeyer, Marie
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.