Cities With 'Slums': From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa

摘要

In Marie Huchzermeyer's Cities With 'Slums': From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa (2011), the author grapples with some of the most challenging and pressing issues facing urban planners and policymakers in the world today: globalization, urbanization, affordable housing, and the question of "slums." Based on extensive research and long-term professional and intellectual engagement with the cases about which she writes, Huchzermeyer chronicles the political, discursive, and material implications that a global development discourse promoting "cities without slums" has had for Africa's urban poor and for their neighborhoods.