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Applied Urban Research, Informal Economies
Challenging City Imaginaries
Internationally there a few cases where street traders have been sensitively integrate into urban plans. Warwick Junction, the primary transport node in Durban, South Africa was for over 10 years one ...
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Public Discourse, World Urban Forum Dialogues
Report on e-Dialogue 5: Governance & Participation
This report provides a summary of discussions held during the eDialogue on Governance and Participation. The Dialogue ran for three weeks between 16th November and 8 December 2009 and attracted much ...
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Applied Urban Research, Space Economy Project
Harnessing a Common Vision for Growth and Development of South Africa's Towns, Cities and City-Regions
The purpose of this draft national urban development framework (NUDF) is to provide a common nation-wide view on how to strengthen the capacity of South Africa's towns, cities and city-regions ...
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Associated, Professor Jo Beall
Decentralization, Women's Rights and Poverty: Learning from India and South Africa
From the early 1980s decentralisation became integral to international development and by the mid-1990s 80 per cent of countries were engaged in some form of decentralisation (Crook and Manor 2000). ...
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Associated, Professor Jo Beall
Indigenous Institutions, Traditional Leaders and Elite Coalitions for Development: The Case of Greater Durban, South Africa
South Africa was not atypical in having to accommodate indigenous institutions in its new political order when the country made its transition from minority rule to a non-racial democracy in 1994. In ...
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Associated, Professor Jo Beall
Fragile Stability: State and Society in Democratic South Africa
This article adopts a 'state-in-society' approach in order to take account of the impact of the transition to democracy in South Africa on social groups and their engagement with the state. ...
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Associated, Professor Jo Beall
Decentralization, Women's Rights and Poverty: Learning from India and South Africa
From the early 1980s decentralisation became integral to international development and by the mid-1990s 80 per cent of countries were engaged in some form of decentralisation (Crook and Manor 2000). ...
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Associated, Professor Jo Beall
Cities, Terrorism and Urban Wars of the 21st Century
The majority of wars are fought in impoverished countries with often devastating and transformative impacts on their urban spaces. Nevertheless, the relationship between acts of terror and ...
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Applied Urban Research, City Labs
Housing, Citizenship and the Movimento Sem Teto of São Paulo
This paper examines the use of a discourse of citizenship by the leaders and members of the São Paulo housing movement, the Uniao de Movimentos de Moradia, and illustrates how they 'see the ...
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