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This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the
rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Africa's urban age is
underway. With the world's fastest growing urban population, the
continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural,
to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those
tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on
the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental
hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the
work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings
together contributions from local researchers investigating key
themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important
example of urban knowledge co-production, the book demonstrates the
regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African
urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality
manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place.
Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of
African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an
important resource for researchers across development studies,
African studies, and urban studies. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003008385, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the
rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Africa's urban age is
underway. With the world's fastest growing urban population, the
continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural,
to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those
tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on
the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental
hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the
work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings
together contributions from local researchers investigating key
themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important
example of urban knowledge co-production, the book demonstrates the
regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African
urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality
manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place.
Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of
African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an
important resource for researchers across development studies,
African studies, and urban studies. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003008385, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa is part of
the World Bank Working Papers series. These papers are published to
communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to
stimulate public discussion. 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
their countries facing spatial segregation issues. The study
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 Ethembalethu - ""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 the 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.
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