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Cityscapes Issue 3
Cityscapes Issue 3
The latest instalment of Cityscapes, the hybrid current affairs and culture magazine devoted to "re-thinking urban things", will be launched in Cape Town on 27 March. Featuring interviews with La ...
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African Perspectives - [South] Africa]: City, Society, Space, Literature and Architecture
African Perspectives - [South] Africa]: City, Society, Space, Literature and Architecture
This volume of the Delft School of Design Series focuses on particular urban questions related to the South African urban context. The book seeks to construct a contemporary critical dialogue of curre ...
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Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town
Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town
Emerging from the inability, at COP15 (Copenhagen), of nation states and multi- national agencies to agree on a long-term commitment to tackling climate change and managing its consequences, there has ...
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Cityscapes Issue 2
Cityscapes Issue 2
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 ...
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Quick Guide 07 - Rental Housing: A much neglected housing option for the poor
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 ...
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Quick Guides 06 - Community Based Organisations: The poor as agents for development
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 ...
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Quick Guide 05 - Housing Finace: Ways to help the poor fing housing
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 ...
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Quick Guide 04: Eviction: Alternatives to the distruction of poor communities
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 ...
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Quick Guide 03 - Land: A crucial element in housing the urban poor
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 ...
