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Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South
The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for housing, building materials, labour, participation and finance. The book looks at the role of the various stakeholders involved in such interventions, including national and local governments, private sector organisations, NGOs and Community-based Organisations.
In Search of Geraldine Moodie
A biography of nineteenth-century Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie.
Global Governance of AIDS
The efforts to establish partnerships between intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations involved in AIDS prevention and control is the focus of this study.
Fun on the Veld
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African Cities
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions—including city regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids. As accelerating urbanization and globalization combine with other forces such as the demand for increasing returns on investment capital, migration, and innovation, they yield cities that are expanding over ever-larger territories. Moreover, these polycentric city regions themselves are agglomerating with one another to create new territorial mega-regions. The processes that beget these novel regional forms produce numerous and ...
Evaluation of Innovative Land Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction. This study evaluates such tools in three peri-urban areas in Lusaka (Zambia), Oshakati (Namibia) and Gaborone (Botswana), with a focus on the perspective of the land holders. The author concludes that the tools are to some extent pro-poor, and makes recommendations for further improvements. These innovative land tools are also considered a necessary addition to conventional and administration tools. This study makes valuable reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners within the land administration domain and related disciplines.
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Lanzarote, die Insel am westlichen Rand der afrikanischen Platte, explodiert gegen Ende dieses Jahrhunderts, und alles Leben wird mit einem Schlag ausgelöscht. Die Feuerberge der östlichsten Kanareninsel speien Feuer, Asche und Lava, und bringen das Wasser des Atlantiks zum kochen. Nur eine kleine Gruppe Konzertbesucher überlebt, eingeschlossen im unterirdischen Konzertsaal der Grotte Jameos del Agua. Der Überlebenskampf der illustren Gesellschaft nimmt groteske Formen an. Totale Resignation, letztes Aufbäumen und Wahnsinn sind Eigenschaften des menschlichen Charakters, sie treten jetzt hemmungslos zu Tage. Sie führen direkt in die Hölle. Einzig ein vorerst getrenntes Paar bewahrt sich die Menschlichkeit und findet kraft ihrer Liebe einen Ausweg. Können sie, die Schwachen und Träumenden, das Unheil tatsächlich noch abwenden oder siegen die teuflischen Mächte?
Hamba Gashle
Hamba Gashle is the inside story of white society in colonial Southern Africa during the 1950s and 1960s. Ian Hassall's edgy memoir provides a vivid and disturbing depiction of childhood and family life against a background of racial exploitation, political change and the disintegration of his white community. Written as a diary from childhood through to early adulthood, the deceptively simple style provides a sense of immediacy, building a vivid picture through apparently unconnected events. The child narrator arrives in Northern Rhodesia from England aged four. Soon after, his parents divorce and he is fostered for several years. His mother marries an anti British Afrikaaner who is a stron...
