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'legal Empowerment of the Poor' Versus 'right to the City': Implications for Access to Housing in Urban Africa
Contributor(s): Vogiazides, Louisa (Author)

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 ISBN: 9171067205     ISBN-13: 9789171067203
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
OUR PRICE: $13.30  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Physical Information: 0.09" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.14 lbs) 44 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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The challenge of urban deprivation and exclusion in the urban South has given rise to varied and shifting policies and ideas. Two sets of ideas have gained great currency in recent years in international policy and academic circles. The Legal Empowerment of the Poor approach, rooted in neoliberal thinking, focuses on the legal rights of the urban poor as the means to secure access to basic services and needs. The Right to the City perspective, on the other hand, stresses issues of citizenship and the appropriation and uses of urban space. This Policy Dialogue analyses the different ideological and normative foundations of the two perspectives and discusses how they lead to different policy formulations. It then takes a closer look at how the two perspectives find expression in contemporary discussions on and approaches to access to housing in urban Africa. To this end, it compares what each approach identifies as the source of the problem and recommends as the policy solution.
 
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