"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban...

Das städtische Bevölkerungswachstum hat in allen afrikanischen Ländern dazu geführt, daß der Anteil der Menschen, die in Squatter-Siedlungen leben, ständig wächst. Wie am Beispiel Monrovias gezeigt wird, ist die staatliche Wohnungspolitik nicht in der Lage, den wachsenden Wohnraumbedarf...

Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...