‘Urban management’ in development assistance

Stren, Richard

doi:10.1016/0264-2751(93)90044-j

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“…This section reviews the literature on the role of e-LA in urban development, which encompasses the planning and investment in facilities and structures to support urbanisation (Stren, 1993). It also explores the benefits expected from e-LA in urban housing development and in particular: access to and security of credit, the improvement of land use planning and environmental management, the promotion of popular participation and the strengthening of the state's financial and taxation capacity.…”

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The impact of electronic land administration on urban housing development: The case study of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria

Akingbade

Navarra

Zevenbergen

et al. 2012

Habitat International

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The impact of electronic land administration on urban housing development: The case study of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria

Akingbade

Navarra

Zevenbergen

et al. 2012

Habitat International

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“…This approach envisaged a much slimmer role for government and the involvement of a wider range of civil society and private sector actors (Rakodi, 1997, Wekwete, 1997. The state was increasingly seen in an 'enabling' role with respect to city planning and government (Lee-Smith and Stren, 1991;Mabogunje, 1992), but beyond these basic points the concept was rather vague and analytically weak (Stren, 1993;Mattingly, 1994).…”

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Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy

Goodfellow

Titeca

2012

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In theory, urban governance involves non-state actors and the state working together in formally institutionalized ways to make collective decisions and provide urban services. However, in developing country cities with highly informalized economies, the processes that underpin 'real' governance often reflect informal bargaining power much more than formal institutional frameworks. This paper uses the case of Uganda's capital Kampala to explore how political configurations subvert structures of city governance, with particular attention to the increasing engagement between President Museveni and particular groups of informal workers. We present empirical research on market vendors and motorcycle taxi (boda-boda) drivers showing how this engagement benefits both the informal groups and the president. Increased political competition has created an environment where informal groups seeking to protect their livelihoods can tactically leverage a presidential intervention in their favour, helping them evade the policies and regulations of the City Council. Meanwhile, the president has used these interventions to build support in a city that was largely lost to the opposition. These processes have progressively undermined already weak formal institutions for urban governance.2

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“…Discourses of market-friendly, day-to-day 'urban management' and improved 'urban governance' evolved in its stead (Lee-Smith and Stren, 1991;Mabogunje, 1992;Mattingly, 1994;McGill, 1998;Stren, 1993). Broader ideological battles between those in favour of state versus market-led development solutions thus played out with great vigour in relation to questions of urban spatial form.…”

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Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: Explaining divergent trajectories in Africa

Goodfellow

2013

Geoforum

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Original citation:Goodfellow, Tom (2013) Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: explaining divergent trajectories in Africa. Geoforum, 48 . pp. 83-93. ISSN 0016-7185 © 2013 Elsevier AbstractWhy are urban plans, land use regulations and construction codes implemented effectively in some African states but not others? This constitutes an increasingly urgent development concern with major implications for the environment and the urban poor. Rather than being explained by economic factors, bureaucratic capacity or the nature of the urban policies and regulations in place, this paper argues that divergent outcomes are largely rooted in differing political bargaining environments. Comparing Uganda and Rwanda, it presents an empirical study that analyses contrasting planning and regulation trajectories in contexts of similarly low levels of socioeconomic development and soaring rates of urban growth. It argues that the divergent outcomes can be explained in relation to the political resources and incentives confronted by governing elites, which in Rwanda impel state actors to implement plans and regulations while in Uganda incentivize overriding them in the interests of political or economic gain. In highlighting political bargaining contexts and how these change over time, the paper illustrates the critical importance of historically informed city-level political economy analysis for understanding divergent urban development outcomes.

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‘Urban management’ in development assistance

Cited by 68 publications

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The impact of electronic land administration on urban housing development: The case study of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria

The impact of electronic land administration on urban housing development: The case study of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria

Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy

Planning and development regulation amid rapid urban growth: Explaining divergent trajectories in Africa

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