02900nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10593061 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120622s2011 sa ab sb 001 0 eng d 2011478776 1919895396 9781919895390 9781920541620 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)811407427 f-sa--- HD7287.96.S68 H855 2011eb Huchzermeyer, Marie. Cities with 'slums' [electronic resource] : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / Marie Huchzermeyer. Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, c2011. viii, 296 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index. Pt. 1. The urban context in the new millennium. Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11 -- Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'? -- Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality -- Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria -- South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 -- Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi -- Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands? -- A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007 -- A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement -- Towards a right to the city. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Squatter settlements Africa. Slums Government policy Africa. Housing policy South Africa. Urban poor Housing Africa. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10593061 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 215638 215638