Urban informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe : on growth, trajectory and aftermath

Urban informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe : on growth, trajectory and aftermath / Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo.

This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African cities and towns. It adopts a polit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moyo, Inocent
Other Authors: Gumbo, Trynos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Series:Urban book series.
Subjects:
Urbanization > South Africa.
Urbanization > Zimbabwe.
Urban geography.
Human geography.
City planning > South Africa.
City planning > Zimbabwe.
Political science.
human geography.
Urbanization
City planning
Human geography
Political science
Urban geography
Zimbabwe
South Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction on the Urban Economic Informality Context
  • Part I History of Urban Informality and Urban Planning Debates
  • Historicising Urban Economic Informality
  • Modernity, Urban Planning and Informality
  • Part II Urban Informality Experiences from Selected South African and Zimbabwean Cities
  • International Migrants and Urban Economic Informality in South African Cities
  • Spatial and Compositional Formality-Informality Interfaces in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Rising Informality and Role in Shaping Economies in Johannesburg City
  • The Spatial Configuration and Reconfiguration in Bulawayo City: Regarding the Impact of Politico-Economic Ideologies
  • The changing shape of economic informality in Durban
  • Part III. Urban informality governance Urban informality policies and regulartory frameworks in South African and Zimbabwean cities
  • Political dimensions of urban informality in South African and Zimbabwean cities
  • Part IV Aftermath
  • The aftermath.

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