Housing in African cities : a lens on urban governance / editors: Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton and Neil Klug.
Rubin, Margot, editor.; Charlton, Sarah, editor.; Klug, Neil, editor.
2023
HD7372.A3 H68 2023
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Title
Housing in African cities : a lens on urban governance / editors: Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton and Neil Klug.
ISBN
9783031374081 electronic book
3031374088 electronic book
9783031374074
303137407X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1 doi
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HD7372.A3 H68 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.5096
Summary
This edited collection from across the African continent offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives. These include insights into the relationships between parties and actors undertaking developments, or whose housing activities impact on the city. The book illustrates issues of power distribution, the visions or agendas motivating these actions, and the instruments used to advance them. It considers the rise of mega housing projects; private sector driven residential developments; unobtrusive transformations of existing building stock, establishment and upgrading of informal settlements; and state driven low cost housing schemes. It surfaces the contestation, collaborations and conflicts as well as the power relations that operate within cities and which are made visible on cityscapes. Housing and human settlement scholars as well as those interested in urban politics and governance dynamics in the global south and across the African continent will find much to appreciate in this volume.
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Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Decembre 8th, 2023)
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Rubin, Margot, editor.
Charlton, Sarah, editor.
Klug, Neil, editor.
Series
Urban perspectives from the global South.
GeoJournal library.
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Chapter 1: Reflecting on the housing lens and urban governance
Section A: STATE AND COUNTER-STATE: DOMINANCE AND CONTESTATION
Chapter 2: The quest to develop affordable housing: How Good Urban Governance depoliticizes the debate on housing affordability in Kigali, Rwanda
Chapter 3: Interests and Contestation in Nairobi City Redevelopment and Housing Schemes
Chapter 4: Are Social Movements achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos, Nigeria?
Chapter 5: Becoming 'Unlawful': Homeownership, housing bureaucracy, and the production of precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town
Chapter 6: Forced Evictions and the creation of the Lagos Mega-city
SECTION B: STAKEHOLDER INTERFACES AND HYBRID ARRANGEMENTS
Chapter 7: Navigating the ideological nexus between political and private interests: experiences on Inclusionary Housing from Cape Town
Chapter 8: From Resistance to Reclamation: Insurgency in Khartoums housing governance post the Sudanese revolution
Chapter 9: Urban governance, authority and citizenship: the dynamics of local formal and informal governance of housing in Delft and Alexandra
Chapter 10: Intermediation by necessity: The case of uMastand
Section C: UNRESOLVED RESPONSIBILITIES
Chapter 11: Housing delivery, local governance and co-operative government in Mangaung
Chapter 12: Housing Governance in the Gauteng City-Region
Chapter 13: Complicit or collusion Politics of Access to Land and Space in the Urban Housing sector in Harare City, Zimbabwe
Chapter 14: Urban governance: balancing strong institutions and powerful actors in the provision of affordable housing in Lagos, Nigeria
Chapter 15: A state of inconsistency: SAs urban housing policy and practice
Section D: OUTSIDE THE STATE: PRIVATE SECTOR AND NON-STATE ACTIONS AND THEIR OUTCOMES
Chapter 16: Afterlives of Housing Cooperatives
Chapter 17: What lies in between: self-built housing and the struggle to remain in place in Dar es Salaam
Chapter 18: Emergence of Large-Scale Private Housing Estates and their Impact on Urban Governance and Morphology in Windhoek, Namibia
Chapter 19: Social integration in the private sector driven housing developments in South Africa
Chapter 20: Housing settlements in selected rural towns and townships in KwaZulu-Natal and their capacity to enhance the production activity of the economy
Chapter 21: Turning Land into Stand: negotiating land transformations in developer-driven affordable suburbs, Gauteng, South Africa.

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