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Housing in African Cities

A Lens on Urban Governance

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01 December 2023

Margot Rubin, Neil Klug, Sarah Charlton

English

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This edited collection titled Housing in African Cities offers a diverse set of analytical accounts that engage with the urban governance dynamics, drivers, and impacts of a wide variety of housing initiatives. These include insights into the relationships between parties and actors undertaking developments, or whose housing activities impact the city. The book illustrates issues of power distribution, the visions or agendas motivating these actions, and the instruments used to advance them. It considers the rise of mega housing projects; private sector-driven residential developments; unobtrusive transformations of existing building stock, establishment and upgrading of informal settlements; and state-driven low-cost housing schemes. It surfaces the contestation, collaborations, and conflicts as well as the power relations that operate within cities and which are made visible on cityscapes. Housing and human settlement scholars as well as those interested in urban politics and governance dynamics in the global south and across the African continent will find much to appreciate in this volume.

 

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Adequacy of shelter

Africa

Built environment

Cities

Construction

Development

Egypt

Energy

Governance

Housing

Human settlements

Inclusionary housing

Informal settlements

Land

Law

Livelihoods

Namibia

Nigeria

Policy

Poverty & inequality

Private sector

Residential buildings

Rural housing

Rwanda

Self-help housing

South Africa

Sustainability

Tanzania

Township

Urban

Urban development

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