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    Land governance in South Africa: implementing the Land Governance Assessment Framework

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is an innovative and participatory diagnostic tool that assesses the state of land governance in a country. This booklet summarises the results of the LGAF process in South Africa.
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    Improving the lives of slum dwellers: A home in the city

    Millennium Project, 2005
    Cities in developing countries need to improve the lives of slum dwellers and manage a near projected doubling of the urban population over the next three decades. The authors of this report assert that these challenges can be met if local authorities and national governments work closely with the urban poor through open and participatory processes.
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    Voice of developers and municipalities: creating more inclusive cities through co-operation

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    A key challenge facing post-apartheid urban spatial form in South Africa is building inclusive and equitable cities that provide the poor greater access to well-located residential and commercial land. This paper provides an in-depth understanding of how urban land development works practically in South Africa, and the interaction between developers and municipalities.  
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    Improving access to the city through value capture: an overview of capturing and allocating value created through the development of transport infrastructure in South Africa

    Urban LandMark, 2012
    Cities attribute much of their economic expansion to the development of transit systems that link people efficiently to jobs. However, many of South Africa's cities lack modern mass transit systems for transporting commuters, who have to rely on increasingly congested roads.
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    The state of African cities 2010: governance, inequality and urban land markets

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    In the early 2040s, African cities will collectively be home to one billion, equivalent to the continent’s total population in 2009. This book argues that since cities are the future habitat for the majority of Africans, African governments should take early action to position themselves for predominantly urban populations.
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    Trading places: accessing land in African cities

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    The developing world is urbanising fast, and new systems of urban land ownership, transfer and governance are emerging. This book tries to explain how these systems work and how they interface with wider markets and with existing land governance regimes, focusing particularly on Africa. 
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    Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2014
    Africa’s population is expected to grow to 2.3 billion by 2050, of whom 60% will be urban. This urbanisation is an important challenge for the next few decades. According to several research papers and reports, Africa’s urbanisation was, in contrast with most other regions in the world, not associated with economic growth in past decades.
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    Urban Landmark Report 2011-13

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    For the next few decades, one of the greatest challenges for the majority of people living on the African continent will be how to integrate into urban life and society. Barriers to entry into formal property systems and urban sub-markets are often daunting, and make participation in formal systems unaffordable for many urban citizens.
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    Urban LandMark

    "Urban LandMark" is short for the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa.
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    The drug trade and governance in Cape Town

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    The Western Cape continues to be plagued by the drug trade and accompanying development of organised crime networks. The paper discusses the racial, economic and geographic variations in the drug trade and drug use, and the trade’s growth during the apartheid, transitional and post-apartheid periods.

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