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Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011.Description: viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781919895390
  • 1919895396
  • 9781920541248 (EISBN)
  • 1920541241 (EISBN)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD7287.96.S68 H855 2011
Online resources: Summary: "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.
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HD7287 .95 .S48 1999 Informal settlement upgrading HD7287.96.D44 K73 2005 Dispossessed HD7287.96.D44 K73 2005 Dispossessed HD7287.96.S68 H855 2011 Cities with 'slums' : HD7374.D8 K8 Durban; HD8001 .S5 The State and the working people in Tanzania / HD8001 .S5 The State and the working people in Tanzania /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.

"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.

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