Cities With Slums: From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa - Couverture souple

Huchzermeyer, M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1919895396 ISBN 13 : 9781919895390

Editeur : University of Cape Town Press, 2010

Synopsis

The title of this book deliberately suggests a critique of the 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 by 2014 are promoted as best practise. And yet, the South African target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marie Huchzermeyer is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she coordinates the postgraduate Housing Programme. She is the co-author of Informal Settlements: A Perpetual Challenge? (UCT Press, 2006)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Cape Town Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1919895396
• ISBN 13: 9781919895390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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