The process of urban land tenure formalisation in Peru

Kagawa, Ayako; Turkstra, J.

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“…For example, Roy's () work on Calcutta shows that the process of sorting out title claims often stirred up violent and fierce competition among residents. Studies of Bogota and Lima show that residents with land titles continued to face credit risks in the face of limited employment opportunities (Kagawa and Tukstra, ). Berner () suggests that, in Manila, formalization displaced the most vulnerable residents by making land markets unaffordable to the poorest.…”

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

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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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“…There exists a body of scholarly insights on regularisation programmes and how effective they have been in developing countries, particularly in Latin America and Africa. In Latin America, Kagawa and Turkstra (2002) applaud the Agency for Formalisation of Informal Property (COFOPRI) in Peru as the best example of a state-led approach in regularising informal settlements. They argued that the state recovered infrastructural investments by charging taxes, and property/construction interests capitalised on the valorised asset.…”

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The Urban Land Nexus– Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements

Magina

Kyessi

Kombe

2020

JARER

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Informal settlements in Tanzania accommodate more than 70% of the urban population. Owing to this, the Tanzanian government has undertaken several initiatives to address the growing size and number of informal settlements. One such initiative is regularisation which addresses security of tenure for residents of these settlements. Most of the people living in informal settlements lack legal land ownership and as a result properties in such settlements have relatively less value and lack security of tenure. Providing security of tenure is believed to encourage investment into informal households and facilitate the provision of urban services. This study aims to evaluate the process of regularisation in three Tanzanian settlements; Magengenu in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania’s largest city), Ibungilo and Isamilo in Mwanza city (the nation’s second largest city). Using qualitative data the paper explores the challenges and opportunities that emerged from regularisation. Findings indicate that the regularisation process has facilitated the issuance of title deeds, increased land value and security of tenure. However, a number of challenges were highlighted during regularisation. These include an over-emphasis on the protection of private rights while undermining public interests, a lack of harmonised cost for regularisation, and prolonged delays in completing the regularisation process. These require policy actions, particularly reviewing the national informal settlements regularisation guidelines, as a way to address the weaknesses emerging from regularisation projects in the studied settlements. We conclude that land regularisation remains an important tool to enhance livable cities and protect long-term public and private interests in land development. In order to achieve this, supportive policy actions are required to support the protection of public interests in land regularisation and harmonise the costs of regularisation.

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“…Uncertainty about ownership and tenure deprives poor people of the opportunity to convert property into capital for investment or home improvement, and undermines the incentive to improve housing stock and neighborhood amenities 27. Reforms in property governance have simplified title registration systems and zoning rules 28. Similar efforts have been made to eliminate bureaucratic barriers to small business entrepreneurship 29…”

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Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

Burris

Hancock²,

Lin³

et al. 2007

J Urban Health

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Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance by developing new institutions and processes of local stakeholder control. The paper highlights strategies urban governors can use to maximize their influence on the national and international decisions that structure urban life. It concludes with some observations on the limitations of local governance strategies and the importance of establishing a Bvirtuous circuit[ of governance through which urban dwellers play a greater role in the formation and implementation of policy at the national and global levels.

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The process of urban land tenure formalisation in Peru

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

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

The Urban Land Nexus– Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements

Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

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