Trading places
Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the uneq...
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African Minds
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| author | Napier, Mark Berrisford, Stephen Wanjiku Kihato, Caroline McGaffin, Rob Royston, Lauren |
| author_browse | Berrisford, Stephen McGaffin, Rob Napier, Mark Royston, Lauren Wanjiku Kihato, Caroline |
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| description | Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban land markets, not only for ethical reasons, but because it makes economic sense for growing cities and towns. If we are to have any chance of understanding and intervening in predominantly poor and very unequal African cities, we need to see land and markets differently. New migrants to the city and communities living in slums are as much a part of the real estate market as anyone else; they're just not registered or officially recognised. This book highlights the land practices of those living on the city's margins, and explores the nature and character of their participation in the urban land market. It details how the urban poor access, hold and trade land in the city, and how local practices shape the city, and reconfigures how we understand land markets in rapidly urbanising contexts. Rather than developing new policies which aim to supply land and housing formally but with little effect on the scale of the need, it advocates an alternative approach which recognises the local practices that already exist in land access and management. In this way, the agency of the poor is strengthened, and households and communities are better able to integrate into urban economies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1078632025-07-17T10:01:20Z Trading places Napier, Mark Berrisford, Stephen Wanjiku Kihato, Caroline McGaffin, Rob Royston, Lauren cities land Africa urban planning thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban land markets, not only for ethical reasons, but because it makes economic sense for growing cities and towns. If we are to have any chance of understanding and intervening in predominantly poor and very unequal African cities, we need to see land and markets differently. New migrants to the city and communities living in slums are as much a part of the real estate market as anyone else; they're just not registered or officially recognised. This book highlights the land practices of those living on the city's margins, and explores the nature and character of their participation in the urban land market. It details how the urban poor access, hold and trade land in the city, and how local practices shape the city, and reconfigures how we understand land markets in rapidly urbanising contexts. Rather than developing new policies which aim to supply land and housing formally but with little effect on the scale of the need, it advocates an alternative approach which recognises the local practices that already exist in land access and management. In this way, the agency of the poor is strengthened, and households and communities are better able to integrate into urban economies. 2023-07-26T17:56:18Z 2023-07-26T17:56:18Z 2023-07-24T15:32:09Z 2013 book ONIX_20230724_9781920489991_9 OCN: 886482584 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64070 9781920489991 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/107863 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64070/1/9781920489991.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64070/1/9781920489991.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64070/1/9781920489991.pdf African Minds 10.47622/9781920489991 10.47622/9781920489991 36099d72-8b22-4bf5-ab27-c2090263b9c6 9781920489991 ScholarLed 144 Cape Town open access |
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