Upgrading Informal Settlements In South Africa

Author : Liza Rose Cirolia,Tristan Görgens,Mirjan van Donk,Warren Smit,Scott Drimie
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775820833

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Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa by Liza Rose Cirolia,Tristan Görgens,Mirjan van Donk,Warren Smit,Scott Drimie Pdf

More than 1.2 million households in South Africa live in informal settlements, without access to adequate shelter, services or secure tenure. There has been a gradual shift to upgrading these informal settlements in recent years, and there have been some innovative experiments. Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa: a partnership-based approach examines the successes and challenges of informal settlement upgrading initiatives in South Africa and contextualises these experiences within global debates about informal settlement upgrading and urban transformation. The book discusses: · The South African informal settlement upgrading agenda from local, national and international perspectives · South African ‘city experiences’ with informal housing and upgrading · The role of partnerships, actors and capabilities in pursuing an incremental upgrading agenda · Tools, instruments and methodologies for incremental upgrading · Implications of the upgrading agenda for the transformation of cities The book has been written and edited by a wide range of practitioners and researchers from government, NGOs, the private sector and academia. It covers theory and practice and represents a vast accumulated body of housing experience in South Africa.

Author : Liza Rose Cirolia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1485115698

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Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa by Liza Rose Cirolia Pdf

"Informal settlements are a pressing urban challenge in South Africa and elsewhere in the world. ... What would a progressive upgrading agenda for informal settlements entail, and how could it be achieved? In [this book] ... the editors argue that approaches which are participatory and incremental offer possibilities that are both radical and attainable. This agenda departs substantially from conventional housing delivery models, requiring a reassembling of policies, programming, practices and--most importantly--power. The 26 chapters of this book are written by researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, and explore various aspects of participatory and incremental upgrading. They cover a wide range of topics, from alternative infrastructure technologies to redesigned fiscal frameworks."--Back cover.

Author : Marie Huchzermeyer,Aly Karam
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1919713948

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Informal Settlements by Marie Huchzermeyer,Aly Karam Pdf

Informal settlements are a shameful feature of poverty and inherited inequalities in South Africa. Defined in this book as 'settlements of the urban poor developed through the unauthorised occupation of land', they are regarded by many as unhealthy and overcrowded blights on the urban landscape 'squatter camps' in common parlance. Yet census data tell us that 16.4% of households across the country live in informal settlements, mostly in urban areas where an insecure foothold on the land enables these households to access the economic opportunities, social and economic networks and basic amenities that are essential to their survival.

Author : Ehebrecht, Daniel
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783869563008

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The challenge of informal settlement upgrading by Ehebrecht, Daniel Pdf

Despite its many challenges and limitations the concept of in situ upgrading of informal settlements has become one of the most favoured approaches to the housing crisis in the ‘Global South’. Due to its inherent principles of incremental in situ development, prevention of relocations, protection of local livelihoods and democratic participation and cooperation, this approach is often perceived to be more sustainable than other housing approaches that often rely on quantitative housing delivery and top down planning methodologies. While this study does not question the benefits of the in situ upgrading approach, it seeks to identify problems of its practical implementation within a specific national and local context. The study discusses the origin and importance of this approach on the basis of a review of international housing policy development and analyses the broader political and social context of the incorporation of this approach into South African housing policy. It further uses insights from a recent case study in Cape Town to determine complications and conflicts that can arise when applying in situ upgrading of informal settlements in a complex local context. On that basis benefits and limitations of the in situ upgrading approach are specified and prerequisites for its successful implementation formulated.

Author : Marie Huchzermeyer
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781919895390

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Cities with 'slums' by Marie Huchzermeyer Pdf

"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.

Author : Marie Huchzermeyer
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1592212115

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Unlawful Occupation by Marie Huchzermeyer Pdf

In the past few years the issue of land invasion and government reposnses to landlessness in the Southern African region has been at the forefront of international attention. By confronting the the questions of exclusion and unlawful occupation this book examines the appropriateness of the informal settlement response in South Africa through a comparison with Brazil. This detailed comparison sets forth the difference in the approaches of both countries, with South Africa employing the individualised, standardised intervention and Brazil a more responsive one.

Author : Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Human settlements
ISBN : 9789211317657

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Situation Analysis of Informal Settlements in Kisumu by Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme Pdf

Author : Edesio Fernandes
Publisher : Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1558442022

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Regularization of Informal Settlements in Latin America by Edesio Fernandes Pdf

In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic urban planning, lack of serviced land, lack of social housing, and a dysfunctional legal system. The settlements develop over time and some have existed for decades, often becoming part of the regular development of the city, and therefore gaining rights, although usually lacking formal titles. Whether they are established on public or private land, they develop irregularly and often do not have critical public services such as sanitation, resulting in health and environmental hazards. In this report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, author Edesio Fernandes, a lawyer and urban planner from Latin America, studies the options for regularization of the informal settlements. Regularization is looked at through established programs in both Peru and Brazil, in an attempt to bring these settlements much needed balance and improvement. In Peru, based on Hernando de Soto's theory that tenure security triggers development and increases property value, from 1996 to 2006, 1.5 million freehold titles were issued at a cost of $64 per household. This did result in an increase of property values by about 25 percent, making the program cost effective. Brazil took a much broader and more costly approach to regularization by not only titling the land, but improving public services, job creation, and community support structures. This program in Brazil has had a cost of between $3,500 to $5,000 per household and has affected a much lower percent of the population. The report offers recommendations for improving regularization policy and identifies issues that must be addressed, such as collecting data with baseline figures to get a true evaluation of the benefit of programs established. Also, it shows that each individual informal settlement must have a customized plan, as a single approach will not work for each settlement. There is a need to include both genders for long-term effectiveness and to find ways to make the regularization self-sustaining financially. Any program must be closely monitored to insure the conditions are improved for the marginalized, as well as be sure it is not causing new informal settlements to be established.

Author : Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Susan Parnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526155362

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African Cities and Collaborative Futures by Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Susan Parnell Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century.

Author : Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811373077

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Resilient Urban Regeneration in Informal Settlements in the Tropics by Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba Pdf

This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its ‘second generation.’

Author : Timothy Gbenga Nubi,Isobel Anderson,Taibat Lawanson,Basirat Oyalowo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813344242

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Housing and SDGs in Urban Africa by Timothy Gbenga Nubi,Isobel Anderson,Taibat Lawanson,Basirat Oyalowo Pdf

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.

Author : Stephen Berrisford,Dave DeGroot,Michael Kihato,Ntombini Marrengane,Zimkhitha Mhlanga,Rogier van den Brink
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0821373749

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In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa by Stephen Berrisford,Dave DeGroot,Michael Kihato,Ntombini Marrengane,Zimkhitha Mhlanga,Rogier van den Brink Pdf

This study outlines the difficulties poor communities face in accessing peri-urban land in South Africa that could have implications and lessons for similar communities in other countries facing spatial segregation issues. 'In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa' focused on one community, composed largely of laid-off farm workers that wanted to buy their own farm in a peri-urban area west of Johannesburg. Their dream was to establish a mixed-use settlement. They wanted to call the village Ethambalethu 'Our Hope.' About 250 families started their own association and savings scheme to make their dream a reality. By 1997, they had saved enough money to make their first purchase offer. A decade later, the community's dream is still not a reality. The families have faced numerous obstacles: two cancelled sale agreements, wrongful arrest, being sued in court, an out-of-court settlement for which community members were paid to not move into the white neighborhood, and large sums of their own money spent on consultants and environmental impact studies. In an agreement with the Mogale City Municipality, where the land is located, the community now has at least a confirmed right to occupy the land. But it does not yet legally own the land, and is still trying to get permission to build on and work the land. The case of Ethembalethu is not unique. Millions of black South Africans live in peri-urban areas. Yet, government programs, development planning and environmental regulations, and the current land and housing markets do not support realization of their aspirations to become homeowners on sites of their choice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Programme
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029493165

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Informal Settlement Upgrading by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen,Mariken Vaa
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171065180

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Reconsidering Informality by Karen Tranberg Hansen,Mariken Vaa Pdf

This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate, studies of urban land use and housing and studies of work and livelihoods. 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. Recent decades of neo-liberal political and economic reforms have increased social inequality across urban space. After an introductory chapter by the editors, the contributions are grouped into the following sections: - LOCALITY, PLACE, AND SPACE - ECONOMY, WORK, AND LIVELIHOODS - LAND, HOUSING, AND PLANNING The case studies are drawn from a diverse set of cities on the African continent. A central theme is how practices that from an official standpoint are illegal or extra-legal do not only work but are considered legitimate by the actors concerned. Another is how the informal city is not exclusively the domain of the poor, but also provides shelter and livelihoods for better-off segments of the urban population.

Author : Ivo Imparato,Jeff Ruster
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821353705

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Slum Upgrading and Participation by Ivo Imparato,Jeff Ruster Pdf

The UN currently estimates that there are about 837 million urban slum dwellers worldwide, and this figure is likely to rise to 1.5 billion by 2020 if current trends are not reversed. This book offers five geographically and institutionally diverse case studies from Latin America, where some of the longest-running and most successful programmes in this field have been conducted. These programmes, involving a wide variety of funding arrangements and agencies, demonstrate the positive impact that community participation and people-oriented service solutions can have on slum upgrading efforts in low income urban areas.