Urban Land Management Regularization Policies And Local Development In Africa And The Arab States

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Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789210310031
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Land Management, Regularization Policies, and Local Development in Africa and the Arab States written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alain Durand-Lasserve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136564136
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Their Ground written by Alain Durand-Lasserve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond to the demands and needs of the majority of squatters and informal settlements, and analyzes how urban stakeholders, with different social, legal and economic constraints, find innovative and flexible solutions. The book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on comparative research on tenure policies and should be useful to researchers and professionals involved in defining and instigating tenure upgrading policies and programmes.

Author : Babar Mumtaz
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789064330308
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guiding cities written by Babar Mumtaz and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franz Vanderschueren
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821337165
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Programme Options for Urban Poverty Reduction written by Franz Vanderschueren and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the specific actions which municipalities and city governments may take in contributing to urban poverty reduction. It highlights examples of issues, options, and constraints which urban government have to address in grappling with poverty and focuses on municipalities and other city-level government entities as a critical institutional level on intervention, particularly in addressing issues relating to service delivery. (Adapté du résumé des auteurs).

Author : Robert Home
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303052504X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Robert Home and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It will attract readers from urban specialisms in law, geography and other social sciences, and from professionals and policy-makers concerned with land use planning, surveying and governance. Among the topics addressed by the book are challenges to governance institutions: how international development is delivered, building land management capacity, funding for urban infrastructure, land-based finance, ineffective planning regulation, and the role of alternatives to courts in resolving boundary and other land disputes. Issues of rights and land titling are explored from perspectives of human rights law (the right to development, and women's rights of access to land), and land tenure regularization. Particular challenges of housing, planning and informality are addressed through contributions on international real estate investment, community participation in urban settlement upgrading, housing delivery as a partly failing project to remedy apartheid's legacy, and complex interactions between political power, money and land. Infrastructure challenges are approached in studies of food security and food systems, urban resilience against natural and man-made disasters, and informal public transport.

Author : Inge Jensen
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789211313000
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Settlements Conditions of the World's Urban Poor written by Inge Jensen and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Akin L. Mabogunje
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : World Bank
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspective on Urban Land and Urban Management Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Akin L. Mabogunje and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper addresses the problems of governance in municipalities in Africa. The concern has been to adapt traditional systems of governance to the needs of modern urban management. This paper investigates the need for a new analysis of the twin problems of urban land and urban management in sub-Saharan Africa. This need is based on the apparent paradox between the dynamic, city-creating activities of civil societies in all of these countries, and the weak capabilities of states to guide and direct these activities. This paper focuses on governance at the community level, where empowerment and accountability begin. It argues that a prerequisite for dealing with these problems is an institutional environment with which the target populace is familiar and to which it is likely to relate in participating in managing the city. The importance of the particularly dynamic systems of traditional governance at the lowest level in managing urban growth is only recently being recognized.

Author : Geoffrey K. Payne
Publisher : Urban Management
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land, Rights and Innovation written by Geoffrey K. Payne and published by Urban Management. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day millions of people around the world spend their hard-earned income improving houses they do not officially own or legally occupy. The vast majority are poor householders in urban areas of the South, where, in some cities, more than half the population lives in various types of unauthorized housing. As land in urban areas becomes more expensive and globalization accelerates the commercialization of urban land markets, people are forced to occupy unused government land, or purchase agricultural land and build a house without permission - activities that urban authorities are often seeking to prevent. Land, Rights and Innovation examines the complex issues surrounding land tenure, and the challenges they present for urban planners in the South and in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Based on extensive research, the book brings together a diverse range of examples from 17 countries where the authorities, non-governmental organizations or communities have evolved practical, innovative approaches to providing tenure for the urban poor. These widen the choices available for residents, encourage local investment to reduce poverty and facilitate the development of more equitable and efficient urban land markets. The inclusion of a chapter examining the legal issues of security of tenure, as well as an introduction and a conclusion summarizing the way forward, makes this book of value to all those responsible for formulating and implementing urban land tenure policies in the rapidly changing and expanding cities in the South and transition economies.

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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book International Development Planning Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Somik V. Lall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402088620
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Land Markets written by Somik V. Lall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As urbanization progresses at a remarkable pace, policy makers and analysts come to understand and agree on key features that will make this process more efficient and inclusive, leading to gains in the welfare of citizens. Drawing on insights from economic geography and two centuries of experience in developed countries, the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography emphasizes key aspects that are fundamental to ensuring an efficient rural-urban transformation. Critical among these are land, as the most important resource, and well-functioning land markets. Regardless of the stage of urbanization, flexible and forward-looking institu- ons that help the efficient functioning of land markets are the bedrock of succe- ful urbanization strategies. In particular, institutional arrangements for allocating land rights and for managing and regulating land use have significant implica- ons for how cities deliver agglomeration economies and improve the welfare of their residents. Property rights, well-functioning land markets, and the management and servicing of land required to accommodate urban expansion and provide trunk infrastructure are all topics that arise as regions progress from incipient urbani- tion to medium and high density.