Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9171065180 ISBN 13 : 9789171065186

Editeur : The Nordic Africa Institute, 2004

Synopsis

Africa's future will be increasingly urban, and the inherited legal, institutional and financial arrangements for managing urban development are inadequate. Access to employment, shelter and services is precarious for most urban residents. The result is the phenomenal growth of the informal city. Extra-legal housing and unregistered economic activities proliferate and basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. The recent decades of neo-liberal political and economic reforms have increased social inequality across urban space. A central theme of the title is how practices that from an official standpoint are seen to be illegal or extra-legal - not only function - but are considered legitimate by the actors concerned.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Nordic Africa Institute
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9171065180
• ISBN 13: 9789171065186
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 235
• Éditeur: Hansen Karen Tranberg, Vaa Mariken
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible