Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
2. Vaa, Mariken.

Description

1. 235 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Informal sector (Economics) > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
2. Villes > Afrique noire > Congrès
3. Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Afrique noire > Congrès
4. City planning > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
5. Squatter settlements > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
6. Bidonvilles > Afrique noire > Congrès
7. Housing > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
8. Cities and towns > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
9. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses
10. Logement > Afrique noire > Congrès
11. Urbanisme > Afrique noire > Congrès
12. Afrique noire > Conditions économiques > 1960- > Congrès

Contents

1. 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

1. JBE 08-1615

Note

1. 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)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Reconsidering informality : perspectives from urban Africa / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa.

Imprint

1. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
2. Vaa, Mariken.

LCCN

1. 2004464815

ISBN

1. 9171065180 (pbk.)
2. 9789171065186 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JBE 08-1615