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The demon is not density but rather that African countries have not planned and made the investments necessary to manage the downsides of the type of density found in informal settlements.
Social protection measures and food distribution targeting adolescents in informal settlements are urgently needed.
Besides battling the coronavirus pandemic, San Roque residents have long been locked in a bigger struggle for their very survival as a community in the face of home demolitions and relocations.
Long before the Indian government responded to the threat of COVID-19 with a lockdown, residents of Shivaji Nagar, with the support of a local NGO, were protecting and helping one another.
COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
Many are speculating about the pandemic changing how we plan and use our cities. What they overlook is how many people live in unplanned settlements where it’s more likely to be business as usual.
Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
In South Africa and India, research has found that free or affordable housing can actually undermine women’s safety and livelihoods.
There are huge holes in the governance of Nairobi river and city’s waste which means the river’s condition has deteriorated.
A community of 200,000 in Dhaka faces eviction to make room for “development”. Is it time to rethink the concept, especially with a billion people now living in informal settlements worldwide?
Rebuilding informal settlements after a disaster must be done through learning from those who live in the settlements.
Indians were promised they would be included in planning 100 smart cities and that everyone would benefit. But many of the millions of slum residents have had no say in their homes being destroyed.
Women in developing countries are burdened by the lack of access to proper toilets in their homes, communities, schools and public spaces.
The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
Paraffin stoves are used all over South Africa in millions of households and are the riskiest.
Kenya needs to complete its national digital land registry to increase transparency and efficiency of the city’s land.
Self-organisation initiatives taken by slum residents across Africa can help urban development.
The current debate about land reform in South Africa could open the door to reviewing urban land ownership issues.
Top contributors
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Head of Urbanisation and Wellbeing, African Population and Health Research Center, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Institute Associate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Full Professor in Anthropology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
