Trading Places : Accessing land in African cities /

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Napier, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cape Town : African Minds for Urban LandMark, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Full text available:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_27597
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20240815120734.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 131212s2013 sa o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9781920677312 
035 |a (OCoLC)863824586 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Napier, Mark. 
245 1 0 |a Trading Places :   |b Accessing land in African cities /   |c Mark Napier [and four others]. 
264 1 |a Cape Town :  |b African Minds for Urban LandMark,  |c 2013. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2014 
264 4 |c ©2013. 
300 |a 1 online resource (144 pages):   |b illustrations 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the authors; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Land and markets in African cities:T ime for a new lens?; Understanding urban growth; The meaning and value of land; Putting land markets into perspective; Factors constraining the debate; Ways of seeing markets; From basic land to complex land markets; Endnotes; Chapter 2 -- Defining markets: A set of transactionsbetween actors; Urban areas as the location for market activity; The nature of land markets in urban areas; Shortcomings of state regulated markets. 
505 0 |a Realising value through land and propertyWhen markets fail; The role of the state in land markets; The role of markets in facilitating investment; Endnotes; Chapter 3 -- In the meantime ... Moving towards secure tenure by recognising localpractice; The presence of urban land markets; The characteristics of land markets; Are lives improving?; Vulnerability of access and location; Implications for practice; Is individual title the desired goal?; Endnotes; Chapter 4 -- Getting land governance right in sub-Saharan cities: More than landadministration; How urban land governance is meant to work. 
505 0 |a How the model cracksA mismatch between governance and impact; Two strands of intervention; A new agenda for urban land governance reform; Chapter 5 -- Choices and decisions: Locating the poor in urban land markets; The consequences of unequal land markets; Towards an equitable urban land development agenda; Shifts in development debates; Recommendations for practice; Trading places; Endnotes; References; Acronyms; Glossary; Back cover. 
506 0 |a Open Access  |f Unrestricted online access  |2 star 
520 |a Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban land markets, not only for ethical reasons, but because it makes economic sense for growing cities and towns. If we are to have any chance of understanding and intervening in predominantly poor and very. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Urbanization.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01162722 
650 7 |a Urban poor.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01162512 
650 7 |a Urban policy.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01162489 
650 7 |a Cities and towns  |x Growth.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00861781 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a "Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides."  |2 bicssc 
650 6 |a Urbanisation  |z Afrique. 
650 6 |a Pauvres en milieu urbain  |z Afrique. 
650 6 |a Villes  |z Afrique  |x Croissance. 
650 6 |a Politique urbaine  |z Afrique. 
650 0 |a Urbanization  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a Urban poor  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a Cities and towns  |z Africa  |x Growth. 
650 0 |a Urban policy  |z Africa. 
651 7 |a Africa.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Full text available:   |u https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27597/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2014 African Studies 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2014 Complete 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2014 Global Cultural Studies 
999 |c 231368  |d 231367