Cities with 'slums' from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa /
"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 h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Claremont, South Africa :
UCT Press,
c2011.
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
| 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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| Physical Description: | viii, 296 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781920541620 (electronic bk.) |