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Housing and governance: perspectives, policy and practice in Global South cities.
eine Fallstudie von Nairobi
the case of Nairobi
Ongoing deepening globalisation and rapid urbanisation trends, coupled with political and socio-economic insufficiencies are resulting in severe societal problems globally. However, the situation is exacerbated in the Global South where most of this rapid urbanisation is concentrated, and which also sufferers more from those insufficiencies. These have generated the so called "urban South’s crisis" that is mainly exemplified by the prominence and persistence of informal settlements. The past six decades have seen the failure of several prescribed solutions attempting to deal with the urban South’s crisis, leading to not only paradigm shifts but also to competing approaches. Furthermore, the urban South housing arena has become very complex and fragmented, involving an ever increasing number of highly heterogeneous actors, with huge disparities in their not only in their roles, resources, power, and scales, but also in their interests and perspectives. Accordingly, the failure of housing policy and initiatives and persistence of housing problems in the urban South have often been attributed to unhealthy actors’ relations, arising from their conflicting interests and competition over power and resources. Furthermore, with the shift from "government to governance" and the rise of "good governance" prescriptions, "improved" actors’ relations have increasingly been seen a prerequisite for dealing with the complex urban challenges in the Global South. Nevertheless, this study postulates that apart from conflicting interests and competition over power and resources, paradigmatic dimensions also play a crucial role in failure of initiatives and the perpetuation of the urban South hosing crisis. Consequently, this study explores three urban South’s critical defining themes of "development, housing, and governance"; coupled with their "static and dynamic paradigmatic dimensions" which are integrated through Structuration theory as an analytical and interpretational framework. This framework guides this study’s theoretical discourses on the urban South crisis, and an empirical case study in the slums and housing arena in Nairobi, Kenya; and ultimately informs the resultant deduced implications to both theory and practice.
Housing and governance: perspectives, policy and practice in Global South cities.
eine Fallstudie von Nairobi
the case of Nairobi
Ongoing deepening globalisation and rapid urbanisation trends, coupled with political and socio-economic insufficiencies are resulting in severe societal problems globally. However, the situation is exacerbated in the Global South where most of this rapid urbanisation is concentrated, and which also sufferers more from those insufficiencies. These have generated the so called "urban South’s crisis" that is mainly exemplified by the prominence and persistence of informal settlements. The past six decades have seen the failure of several prescribed solutions attempting to deal with the urban South’s crisis, leading to not only paradigm shifts but also to competing approaches. Furthermore, the urban South housing arena has become very complex and fragmented, involving an ever increasing number of highly heterogeneous actors, with huge disparities in their not only in their roles, resources, power, and scales, but also in their interests and perspectives. Accordingly, the failure of housing policy and initiatives and persistence of housing problems in the urban South have often been attributed to unhealthy actors’ relations, arising from their conflicting interests and competition over power and resources. Furthermore, with the shift from "government to governance" and the rise of "good governance" prescriptions, "improved" actors’ relations have increasingly been seen a prerequisite for dealing with the complex urban challenges in the Global South. Nevertheless, this study postulates that apart from conflicting interests and competition over power and resources, paradigmatic dimensions also play a crucial role in failure of initiatives and the perpetuation of the urban South hosing crisis. Consequently, this study explores three urban South’s critical defining themes of "development, housing, and governance"; coupled with their "static and dynamic paradigmatic dimensions" which are integrated through Structuration theory as an analytical and interpretational framework. This framework guides this study’s theoretical discourses on the urban South crisis, and an empirical case study in the slums and housing arena in Nairobi, Kenya; and ultimately informs the resultant deduced implications to both theory and practice.
Housing and governance: perspectives, policy and practice in Global South cities.
eine Fallstudie von Nairobi
the case of Nairobi
Wohnungsbau und Governance: Perspektiven, Politik, und Praxis in Städten des Globalen Südens
Masilwa, Joseph Kedogo (author)
2016
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