Publications - African Centre for Cities

Cityscapes Issue 2

Sean O'Toole (Ed.), Tau Tavengwa (Ed.)

In case you missed the first issue, a brief introduction, courtesy of the magazine's consulting editor, Edgar Pieterse: "Cityscapes is a continuous adventure in trying to decipher the emerge ...

Quick Guide 07 - Rental Housing: A much neglected housing option for the poor

Millions of people in African cities are tenants. Rental housing may be only a partial answer to urban housing problems, but it is an important housing option – especially for the urban poor, an ...

Quick Guides 06 - Community Based Organisations: The poor as agents for development

The emergence of community organizations of the poor in Africa has been a very important de- velopment during the past two decades. These organizations, also known as community-based organizations (CB ...

Quick Guide 05 - Housing Finace: Ways to help the poor fing housing

The two extreme outcomes of current shelter systems that are being witnessed today are affordable shelter that is inadequate, and adequate shelter that is unaffordable. Housing finance is a tool we us ...

Quick Guide 04: Eviction: Alternatives to the distruction of poor communities

Despite decades of work by housing and human rights organizations, NGOs, multilateral insti- tutions and community organizations, the eviction of poor households and poor communities is increasing in ...

Quick Guide 03 - Land: A crucial element in housing the urban poor

Without land, there can be no housing. And without looking at the issue of land, there can be no meaningful discussion about how to solve the problems of housing for the poor in our cities. The inacce ...

Quick Guide 02 - Low Income Housing: Approaches to helping the urban poor find adequate housing

This guide describes several ways of addressing low-income housing in African cities at the programme and project level. It focuses on well tried methods of improving the housing and living environmen ...

Quick Guide 01 - Housing the Poor in African Cities: Urban Africa, building with untapped potential

Africa and Asia are at the epicentre of the second large-scale urban transition in the history of the world. The first transition unfolded between 1750 and 1950 in North America and Europe, which saw ...

CityScapes

Sean O'Toole (Ed.), Edgar Pieterse (Ed.), Tau Tavengwa (Ed.)

WHAT IS CITYSCAPES CityScapes, a high quality magazine style biannual publication, is an initiative of the African Centre for Cities. Our experience has demonstrated that there is a pressing need to t ...