Cities with Slums : From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa
ISBN: 9781920541620
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Cape Town Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science; Business/ Management;

The UN's Cities without Slums Campaign, which aimed to improve the lives of 100 million "slum" dwellers, has been inappropriately communicated across Africa as a project to eradicate slums and this book explains how current urban policy encourages this interpretation which has led to conflicts between urban residents and local and national authorities. It argues that the right to the city, in its original conception, has direct relevance for urban contestations in Africa today.

Marie Huchzermeyer is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is the author of Tenement Cities: From 19th Century Berlin to 21st Century Nairobi and Unlawful Occupation: Informal Settlements and Urban Policy in South Africa and Brazil , and a coeditor of Informal Settlements: A Perpetual Challenge?


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