Urban informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe : on growth, trajectory and aftermath / Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo.
Moyo, Inocent.; Gumbo, Trynos.
2021
HT384.S6 M69 2021eb
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Title Urban informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe : on growth, trajectory and aftermath / Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo.
Author Moyo, Inocent.
ISBN 9783030654856 (electronic bk.)
3030654850 (electronic bk.)
3030654842
9783030654849
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65485-6
Published Cham : Springer, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 168 pages : color illustrations, color maps)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-65485-6 doi
Call Number HT384.S6 M69 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African cities and towns. It adopts a political economy approach to analyse the evolution of informality in cities and its implications for urban planning. It brings to bear how the South African and Zimbabwean historical and/or ideological and contemporary political and economic trajectories have impacted on the ever changing nature of urban informality, both spatially and structurally and/or compositionally; thus resulting in unique urban materialities, which are aspects that have scarcely been studied or discussed in the extant literature. This book, therefore, seeks to close the academic gap by dealing with the dearth of literature on spatial (re)locational discourses of urban informality. The work positions urban informality as a resilient force with potency in terms of political mobilisation and (re) shaping urban spaces. Though these are fundamental issues, they have received comparatively little attention, especially in literature that focuses on the Southern African region. Accordingly, undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as academics in the fields of Urban Geography, Political Science, Development Studies, Sociology, Town and Regional Planning among others, will find the range of topics and depth of coverage in this book particularly valuable. Similarly, practitioners and activists on issues of urban informality and urban governance will find the book very useful.
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Introduction on the Urban Economic Informality Context
Part I History of Urban Informality and Urban Planning Debates
Historicising Urban Economic Informality
Modernity, Urban Planning and Informality
Part II Urban Informality Experiences from Selected South African and Zimbabwean Cities
International Migrants and Urban Economic Informality in South African Cities
Spatial and Compositional Formality-Informality Interfaces in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe
Rising Informality and Role in Shaping Economies in Johannesburg City
The Spatial Configuration and Reconfiguration in Bulawayo City: Regarding the Impact of Politico-Economic Ideologies
The changing shape of economic informality in Durban
Part III. Urban informality governance Urban informality policies and regulartory frameworks in South African and Zimbabwean cities
Political dimensions of urban informality in South African and Zimbabwean cities
Part IV Aftermath
The aftermath.

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