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Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa
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- Creator
- edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789171065186, 9171065180
- OCLC
- ocm55746252
- Selected and revised papers from a conference entitled "The formal and the informal city : what happens at the interface?" and held in June 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Karen Tranberg Hansen, Mariken Vaa -- SECTION I: LOCALITY, PLACE, AND SPACE -- Sharing public space in Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville: immigrant fishermen and a multinational oil company / Gabriel Tati -- The right to stay in Cato Crest: formality and informality in a South African development project / Knut G. Nustad -- Who rules the streets? The politics of vending space in Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- SECTION II: ECONOMY, WORK, AND LIVELIHOODS -- Trade and the politics of informalization in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau / Ilda Lourenço-Lindell -- Home based enterprises in a period of economic restructuring in Zambia / Barbara Mwila Kazimbaya-Senkwe -- Home industries and the formal city in harare, Zimbabwe / Amin Y. Kamete -- SECTION III: LAND, HOUSING, AND PLANNING -- Land use planning and governance in Dar es Salaam: a case study from Tanzania / Marco Burra -- Actors and interests: the development of an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya / Rose Gatabaki-Kamau, Sara Karirah-Gitau -- The law and access to land for housing in Maseru, Lesotho / Resetselemang Clement Leduka -- Upgrading an informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa / John Abbott -- Beyond the formal/informal dichotomy: access to and in Maputo, Mozambique / Paul Jenkins
Subjects
- Cities and towns -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Informal sector (Economics) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Squatter settlements -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- City planning -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Housing -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses.