The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized t

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature d

Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes orient

Informal settlements are a shameful feature of poverty and inherited inequalities in South Africa. Defined in this book as 'settlements of the urban poor develo