Title: Cities with 'slums'
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.
Subjects: Slums, Urban poor, Housing policy, Housing, Squatter settlements, Housing, africa, Poor, housing, Poor, africa, Government policy
Places: Africa, Government policy, South Africa