Overview
- Offers a new and unique resource for academics
- Shares valuable insights on urban informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
- Represents an essential resource for activists and policymakers on Urban Governance and Development in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History of Urban Informality and Urban Planning Debates
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Urban Informality Experiences from Selected South African and Zimbabwean Cities
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Urban Informality Governance
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Aftermath
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African cities and towns. It adopts a political economy approach to analyse the evolution of informality in cities and its implications for urban planning. It brings to bear how the South African and Zimbabwean historical and/or ideological and contemporary political and economic trajectories have impacted on the ever changing nature of urban informality, both spatially and structurally and/or compositionally; thus resulting in unique urban materialities, which are aspects that have scarcely been studied or discussed in the extant literature. This book, therefore, seeks to close the academic gap by dealing with the dearth of literature on spatial (re)locational discourses of urban informality.
The work positions urban informality as a resilient force with potency in terms of political mobilisation and (re) shaping urban spaces. Though these are fundamental issues, they have received comparatively little attention, especially in literature that focuses on the Southern African region. Accordingly, undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as academics in the fields of Urban Geography, Political Science, Development Studies, Sociology, Town and Regional Planning among others, will find the range of topics and depth of coverage in this book particularly valuable. Similarly, practitioners and activists on issues of urban informality and urban governance will find the book very useful.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Trynos Gumbo is an Associate Professor and Head of the Town and Regional Planning Department at the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg. His research interests largely lie within the sustainable urban planning and development domain, where he specifically focuses on the application of geographic information systems and related technologies to provide novel insights on innovative urban transport systems, renewable energy, and informal urban economies and housing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Book Subtitle: On Growth, Trajectory and Aftermath
Authors: Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65485-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65484-9Published: 10 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65487-0Published: 11 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65485-6Published: 09 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 168
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Governance and Government