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978 1 91989 539 0 978 1 92054 162 0 978 1 92054 124 8 978 1 92051 676 5 2011
304 PAGES
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Cities with ‘Slums’
From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
M HUCHZERMEYER
The title of this book deliberately suggests a critique of the UN’s Cities Without Slums campaign, which has unwittingly legitimised large-scale evictions from informal settlements in many African cities, from Abuja in Nigeria to Cape Town in South Africa. The African continent often looks to South African urban policy for a solution to what is perceived as the escalating ‘problem’ of slums. South African cities’ global competitiveness in attracting investment, their hosting of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and their determination to eradicate informal settlements are promoted as best practice. And yet, the last is perhaps the most tragic misinterpretation and abuse of the Millennium Goal to ‘significantly improve the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020’, to which the unfortunate slogan of Cities Without Slums is attached.
SUITABLE FOR
• Academics and students in Development and Urban Studies
• Policy-makers
• NGOs and government organisations dealing with housing rights.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Lessons from Cape Town
M NEW, D SCOTT & H DAVIES (EDITORS)
The City of Cape Town is integrating climate change into its policy-making in response to rapid urbanisation and city-scale climatic changes. This book records progress made and challenges faced in mainstreaming climate change into urban policies, processes, programmes and practices, from environmental resource management and environmental safety to energy management and spatial planning. City officials and academics have collaborated to co-produce knowledge and co-write the chapters, giving an ‘insider’ view of urban development and climate change governance through the lens of theory.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Mark New is Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) at the University of Cape Town, and Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Helen Davies was Head of Environmental Policy and Strategy at the City of Cape Town.
Dianne Scott is Senior Researcher: Climate and Fractal Research Projects, at the African Centre of Cities, University of Cape Town, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
SUITABLE FOR
Scholars, practitioners and general informed readers interested in development studies, environmental studies, climate science, human geography, urban studies, organisational development, and sociology; also scholars of science and society, transitions and knowledge co-production.
978 1 77582 217 2 978 1 77582 240 0 2018
360 PAGES
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