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Author : Firoz Khan
Release : 2003
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Housing Policy and Practice in Post-apartheid South Africa by : Firoz Khan
Download or read book Housing Policy and Practice in Post-apartheid South Africa written by Firoz Khan. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Louise McCarney
Release : 2003-09-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 510/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Governance on the Ground by : Patricia Louise McCarney
Download or read book Governance on the Ground written by Patricia Louise McCarney. This book was released on 2003-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance on the Ground describes people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment. This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 10-year research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, infrastructure projects, social development, housing, harbor development, and political party participation. Material comes from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. All chapters present governance at a local level in a period characterized by decentralization and democratization, when many governments were improving local accountability and transparency and people were actively participating in public forums, especially through institutions of civil society. Many chapters show the close connection between social science and actual policy formation and implementation in the developing world.
Author : Udesh Pillay
Release : 2006
Genre : Community development, Urban
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Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy and Delivery by : Udesh Pillay
Download or read book Democracy and Delivery written by Udesh Pillay. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Delivery: Urban Policy in South Africa tells the story of urban policy and its formulation in South Africa. As such, it provides an important resource for present and future urban policy processes. In a series of essays written by leading academics and practitioners, Democracy and Delivery documents and assesses the formulation, evolution and implementation of urban policy in South Africa during the first ten years of democracy. The contributors describe the creation of democratic local governments from the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising and the intense township struggles of the 1980s, the formulation of 'developmental' planning and financial frameworks, and the delivery of housing and services by the new democratic order. They examine the policy formulation processes and what underlay these, debate the role of research and the influence of international development agencies, and assess successes and failures in policy implementation. Looking to the future, the contributors make suggestions based on experience with implementation and changing political priorities. Academics, students, policy-makers and government officials, as well as an informed public, will find this book an enlightening read.
Author : Astrid Ley
Release : 2010
Genre : Cape Town (South Africa)
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Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Housing as Governance by : Astrid Ley
Download or read book Housing as Governance written by Astrid Ley. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic roles and linkages of public sector institutions and civil society actors in housing provision for the urban poor in South Africa. Based on actor-centred and network theories, two cases of civil society alliances are analysed. The book reveals that existing civil society structures are hybrids that can oscillate between networks and organisations. Moreover, they establish informal governance spaces with state actors outside the institutional channels provided by government. The emergence of oscillating structures and the informalisation of horizontal governance represent new challenges for local decision-making processes. Co-operation and action-oriented approaches in housing seemingly need to be based on a more detailed understanding of the complex interfaces, which go far beyond the conventional ideal of partnerships and participation between sectors.
Author : Clinton Aigbavboa
Release : 2018-07-04
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Residential Satisfaction and Housing Policy Evolution by : Clinton Aigbavboa
Download or read book Residential Satisfaction and Housing Policy Evolution written by Clinton Aigbavboa. This book was released on 2018-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores residential satisfaction and housing policy trends in developing nations by using subsidised low-income housing examples in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria as case studies. While there has been much documentation on the formation of residential satisfaction and the evolution of housing policy in developed nations, relatively little has been written about these topics in developing nations. This book provides readers with two major practical insights: The first is focused on the theoretical underpinning of residential satisfaction and the formation of residential satisfaction in subsidised low-income housing through the development of a conceptual framework, while the second is focused on housing policy evolution and its trends in South Africa. In this section of the book, comparative overviews of public housing in two West African countries are provided with an emphasis on the philosophical basis for its development in these countries. The central aim of the book is to provide readers with ideas on residential satisfaction formation and housing policy trends in South Africa.
