Overview
- Provides new insights into housing and urban governance
- Introduces the idea of housing as politics in built form
- Describes housing and urban governance in an African context
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL)
Part of the book sub series: Urban Perspectives from the Global South (URPGS)
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This edited collection from across the African continent 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 on 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 politicsand governance dynamics in the global south and across the African continent will find much to appreciate in this volume.
Keywords
- Comparative African urbanism
- Southern theorisation
- African urban governance
- Housing and human settlements
- African city studies
- Global south urbanism
- Affordable housing in African cities
- Redevelopment and Housing Schemes
- Right to Adequate Housing
- Homeownership and housing bureaucracy
- Forced home evictions
- Inclusionary Housing from Cape Town
- Urban governance, authority and citizenship
- Politics of Access to Land and Space
- South Africa’s urban housing policy and practice
- Afterlives of Housing Cooperatives
- Self-built housing
- Private Housing Estates and Urban Governance
- Private sector driven housing developments in South Africa
- Housing settlements in rural towns and townships
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Margot Rubin is a Lecturer in Spatial Planning, School of Geography and Planning, University of Cardiff and is a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University, Johannesburg, where she was formerly an Associate Professor, South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning. Margot has been writing about inner-city regeneration and housing policy, regional urban governance in the BRICS and is currently engaged in work around mega housing projects and issues of gender and the city. Rubin has over 30 publications of book chapter and journal articles on issues ranging from backyard accommodation to bureaucratic activism.
Sarah Charlton is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University, South Africa, and past Director of its research centre CUBES. She has worked extensively in the field of low-income housing in South Africa including in local government and the non-profit sector. Her research focuses on low-income housing policy and practice, state interventions in development, and people’s lived experiences of cities. She is Research Associate of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University, and serves on the boards of several journals.
Neil Klug is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University, South Africa, and past Coordinator of the Master’s program in Urban Design. He has also practised as an Urban Planning and Housing Consultant for over 30 years, largely in the field of low-cost housing and slum upgrading. He has published book chapters and journal articles on spatial planning, access to land and inclusionary housing, and on South African policy implementation in the field of informal settlement upgrading.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing in African Cities
Book Subtitle: A Lens on Urban Governance
Editors: Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, Neil Klug
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37408-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37407-4Published: 28 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37410-4Due: 11 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37408-1Published: 27 November 2023
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Public Policy