Fruto das reflexões que a urbanista Raquel Rolnik elaborou durante e imediatamente após
o término de seu mandato como relatora para o Direito à Moradia Adequada da ONU …

Hernando de Soto's new bestseller, The Mystery of Capital, attributes the failure of
capitalism in the Third World to the lack of property titles. Many governments around the …

Official discussion and negotiation on housing policy in South Africa was closed in 1994 with
the launch of the new Housing White Paper. Contradictions in this policy between housing …

The persistence of policy failures is a recognized but not well-understood phenomenon in
the literature of the policy sciences. Existing studies offer only limited insights into the …

Setting: Key findings suggest that protests, informal settlements, health challenges, shack
fires, flooding, violence and criminality, corruption and xenophobic attacks are the …

This chapter contains an analysis of the housing policy process in South Africa, and the
factors that shape policy. The housing policy, adopted in 1994, has evolved over the years …

Control over the urbanization process in South Africa was redefined after the mid‐1980s,
when the policy of 'orderly urbanization'replaced that of racially based 'influx control'. In the …

The Constitution of South Africa guarantees the right to “adequate shelter” for all citizens
within available state resources. While government policies and delivery programmes are …

Urban studies scholars drawing on Foucault's analysis of governmentality have investigated
how urban social orders are increasingly more concerned with the management of space …

This paper reveals how urban theories traditionally rooted in northern cities and academies
are challenged and redeveloped by southern perspectives. Critiques of urban theory as …