Cities with 'slums' : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer.
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TextPublication details: Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011.Description: viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781919895390
- 1919895396
- 9781920541248 (EISBN)
- 1920541241 (EISBN)
- HD7287.96.S68Â H855 2011
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| TAMCAS Library TAMCAS General shelves | HD7287.96.S68 H855 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 71951 |
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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