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Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa

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Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa.
Publication
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
  • Vaa, Mariken.
Description
235 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • 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
  • Villes > Afrique noire > Congrès
  • Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Afrique noire > Congrès
  • Bidonvilles > Afrique noire > Congrès
  • Urbanisme > Afrique noire > Congrès
  • Logement > Afrique noire > Congrès
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses
  • Afrique noire > Conditions économiques > 1960- > Congrès
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 land in Maputo, Mozambique / Paul Jenkins.
Call Number
JBE 08-1615
ISBN
  • 9171065180 (pbk.)
  • 9789171065186 (pbk.)
LCCN
2004464815
OCLC
55746252
Title
Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa.
Imprint
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
Vaa, Mariken.
Research Call Number
JBE 08-1615
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