Multiple Land Regimes: Rethinking Land Governance in Maputo’s Peri-urban Spaces

Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku; Royston, Lauren; Raimundo, José Alberto; Raimundo, Inês

doi:10.1007/s12132-012-9163-z

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“…These in turn have specifi c historical roots, and the diverse and even confl icting interests militate against efforts at coherence or even alternative, bottom-up and more sustainable planning than what has resulted from the failed modernist legacy. Yet, in peri-urban Maputo, where the state still technically owns all land, fragmentation is also occurring although technically illegal informal markets appear to operate quite effi ciently (Kihato et al 2012 ).…”

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Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Simon

Adam-Bradford

2016

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Understanding of urban fringes or peri-urban interfaces (PUIs) as zones characterised by rapid transitional change and sprawling urbanisation has increased markedly over recent years. Archaeological evidence also illustrates the pivotal role that peri-urban zones once played in the survivability of ancient urban centres. Over the last three decades, urban growth and associated transitional changes have accelerated in most regions, producing major challenges to the development of resilient cities capable of absorbing climatic, economic and environmental shocks. Globalised processes of industrialisation and market interdependence have remoulded urban fringes, bringing increased environmental impacts, including the loss of natural resources and environmental buffers now recognised as essential for urban resilience. Furthermore, ongoing global environmental change (GEC) and increasing socio-economic inequality are generating new priorities as peri-urban zones consolidate, erode and shift outwards. Given the inadequacies of existing frameworks, we advocate a hybrid approach to PUI planning and design that draws on integrated, agropolitan-type perspectives embedded within a resilient, locally appropriate regional-urban focus within broader socio-spatial and geo-economic systems. Diverse historical and contemporary examples inform the discussion of the PUI planning and design and the identifi cation of policy recommendations for a hybrid planning approach based on adaptive capacity and resilience.

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Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Simon

Adam-Bradford

2016

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“…Urban land governance in Mozambique has historically evolved amidst the contradictions and gaps of successive state regimes [28][29][30][31]. This has given rise to a set of institutional practices which bear little relationship to formal bureaucratic laws and regulations [32][33][34]. This is not a simple story of formality vs. informality however, as these practices are underpinned and regulated by lower levels of the formal municipality bureaucracy.…”

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“…The process of overseeing land transactions and providing such affidavits is regularly associated with the payment fees to local leaders and the neighborhood secretary, which creates a financial incentive among benefactors for continued (illegal) land transactions. It is nonetheless a system which has been credited with providing a high degree of tenure security [31,33,34] From the perspective of 'formality' the land claims established through 'alternative formality' are based on illegal transactions which are, at best, eligible for usufruct rights after 10 years if in compliance with urban plans developed by the municipality. In the face of urban 'development' however, all tenure is fundamentally insecure as the state is vested with the ability to expropriate land if deemed to be in the public interest.…”

Section: Urban Land Governance In Beiramentioning

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“…Only two of the households had formal property titles, which they had acquired through the (former) nationalized housing scheme dating from Mozambique's socialist era [29]. The majority had declarations of occupancy from the neighborhood secretary in accordance with established urban governance practices in Mozambique [32][33][34].…”

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Sustainable Urbanization on Occupied Land? The Politics of Infrastructure Development and Resettlement in Beira City, Mozambique

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With this article we contribute to debates on urban land governance and sustainable urban development in Africa by providing an empirical analysis of forced displacement and resettlement associated with infrastructure development in Beira city, Mozambique. In recent years Beira has become the recipient of numerous investment flows targeting the built environment by a range of international investors. By analyzing the micropolitical engagements associated with three different infrastructure projects, based on extensive qualitative interviews, observations, and document analysis, we demonstrate how each intervention has been associated with highly informal and divergent processes of forced displacement and resettlement. We argue that these land related impacts have been annexed from debates on sustainable infrastructure development, and that they exhibit some fundamental differences from established resettlement research. We conclude by arguing that forced displacement and resettlement should be understood as a deliberate and systematic feature of urban infrastructure development, through which new social-spatial arrangements are created. This ultimately points to the emergence of a novel mode of fragmented urbanism within the context of urban development in Africa which poses new challenges to urban sustainability.

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“…However, urban governance and development are greatly influenced by local actors in a given jurisdiction (c.f. Stigt et al (2013), Rakodi (2003) and Kihato et al (2013)): they deal directly with local interests including informalities, disputes, land transactions, and land allocations. Arguably, a multi-level urban land governance framework is argued to fill the gap.…”

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Multiple Land Regimes: Rethinking Land Governance in Maputo’s Peri-urban Spaces

Cited by 22 publications

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Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Archaeology and Contemporary Dynamics for More Sustainable, Resilient Cities in the Peri-Urban Interface

Sustainable Urbanization on Occupied Land? The Politics of Infrastructure Development and Resettlement in Beira City, Mozambique

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