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...
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Cape Town :
African Minds for Urban LandMark,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.