Informal Settlement Upgrading: Bridging the Gap Between the De Facto and the De Jure

Horen, Basil van

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“…In the 1960s, policy debate on this issue was dominated by proposals to remove informal settlements through forced eviction and relocation of urban squatters into public housing (Hardoy and Satterthwaite, ). In the 1970s, the debate shifted towards an emphasis on upgrading as an alternative to facilitate long‐term improvement of informal resettlements (van Horen, ). Subsequently, the question of informality moved to the core of the debate.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Research Methodsmentioning

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Village Redevelopment and Desegregation as a Strategy for Metropolitan Development: Some Lessons from Guangzhou City

Wong

Tang

Liu

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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How to integrate millions of migrant workers into local communities remains a core challenge in China's urban transformation. Recently some cities, driven by a national policy of integrated metropolitan development, have aggressively engaged in the redevelopment of urbanizing villages (chengzhongcun) to promote formalization and desegregation. This article adopts a historical micro‐perspective to examine the actual role of urbanizing villages in city making, through an in‐depth analysis of how migrants and villagers have struggled since the 1980s for symbiotic co‐existence during various stages of urbanization. It argues that state‐led village redevelopment has created more problems than it has solved. Redevelopment eliminates some of the spatial and institutional separations characterizing Chinese socialist villages by dismantling barriers hindering formalization and marketization of collective village land, but this produces new social inequalities and tensions as it uproots pre‐existing self‐governing communities to facilitate spontaneous grassroots rural‐to‐urban transition for villagers and migrants. To cope with these problems, intervention to resolve the emerging problems of Chinese cities must consider a fundamental policy shift, away from sole reliance on the means of formalization and integration, to greater emphasis on the benefits of informality and segregation.

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Section: Conceptual Framework and Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Village Redevelopment and Desegregation as a Strategy for Metropolitan Development: Some Lessons from Guangzhou City

Wong

Tang

Liu

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…He took home [that] they just simplify the stuff, even this [GDS] document you have was deliberately simplified -and still people find it dense… They were saying to us if you want to engage with stakeholders and citizens across the board you have to take stuff in a form they can engage… we hadn't finalised this consultation process, so we got back and that was at the back of my mind… [Interview, former city official, 2011] More generally, though, apparently international learning can be embedded in ongoing recursive interactions and policy development where the exact origins are unclear (Wood, 2014). Phil Harrison, himself a former city official as well as senior scholar notes, for example, that although South Africa had long experience in in situ upgrading of informal settlements (van Horen, 2000), and academic knowledge about the Brazilian experience was widespread, two study tours to Brazil and Peru (1999) and to Brazil in 2008 "led more immediately to the adoption of new policy" (Harrison, 2015:216) in this area.…”

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Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeated instances, topologies

Robinson¹

2021

Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation

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Following on from calls to reformat comparative urban methods to support global urban studies, this paper draws inspiration from policy mobilities to explore how the genetic interconnectedness of urban processes and outcomes can be mobilised methodologically to critique and extend concepts in urban theory through comparison. What might be the scope and tactics for a practice of comparison through connections, which can start anywhere and build comparisons and analytical insights across a very great diversity of urban experiences? This paper explores three possible ways to take this forward. Firstly, tracing a specific connection, such as a policy link, from one context to another or across a number of different contexts contributes to understanding specific urbanization processes. Secondly, following connections brings into view the range and variety of processes and outcomes in different contexts. In the highly transnationalised world of urban policy this method potentially links a very wide variety of diverse urban contexts and draws attention to a multiplicity of repeated instances of urban forms. Finally, the paper considers the potential to work with the array of transnational processes shaping distinctive policy outcomes and development paths as they come together in one specific place-to explore how "elsewhere" is folded in to localised growth paths. Thus, comparative practices could follow policy mobilities to explore the potential of a more topological imagination of thinking across different contexts, and bringing a diversity of urban contexts into analytical conversation. Along these lines, the invention of concepts and understandings of the urban might emerge anywhere, and perhaps find wider relevance across different situations. Following the trajectories of policy mobilities is thus not only a pathway to inventing new methods but also potentially new grounds for theorizing the urban.

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“…The approach of the SASDI and its community partners are explored by Bolnick and Bradlow (2010), Bradlow (2015), and Mitlin and Mogaladi (2013). Focusing on the Durban metropolitan area, analysis of informal settlement upgrading has been presented by van Horen (2000) and Charlton (2006), who focus on Besters Camp, a settlement where community participation in planning was attempted but with poor tenure arrangements. Charlton (2006) and Patel (2013) discuss Ntuthukoville in Pietermaritzburg-Msunduzi, Briardene, Cato Crest and Zewlisha case studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Loggia²

2021

African Cities and Collaborative Futures

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Informal Settlement Upgrading: Bridging the Gap Between the De Facto and the De Jure

Cited by 28 publications

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Village Redevelopment and Desegregation as a Strategy for Metropolitan Development: Some Lessons from Guangzhou City

Village Redevelopment and Desegregation as a Strategy for Metropolitan Development: Some Lessons from Guangzhou City

Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeated instances, topologies

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