Informal settlements are a shameful feature of poverty and inherited inequalities in South Africa. Defined in this book as 'settlements of the urban poor develo

The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized t

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution

More than 1.2 million households in South Africa live in informal settlements, without access to adequate shelter, services or secure tenure. There has been a g

Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes orient