Cities with 'slums'
Subtitle: from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
By: Marie Huchzermeyer
Publisher: UCT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Claremont, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781919895390; 9781920541248
Subjects: Slums; Urban poor; Housing policy; Housing; Squatter settlements
Description: "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 how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The urban context in the new millennium. Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11; title: Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'?; title: Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality; title: Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria; title: South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014; title: Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi; title: Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands?; title: A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007; title: A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement; title: Towards a right to the city.