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    Africa’s urban land markets: piecing together an economic puzzle

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Understanding the urban land market is like putting together a puzzle. It requires searching for clues and piecing together bits that do not quite seem to fit; like putting together pieces from different jigsaw puzzles without always knowing whether each piece is exactly in its place or what the final puzzle will look like.
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    Access to land in poorer parts of towns and cities

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    As people move from one area to another, there is a type of informal trading that takes place as they exchange their dwellings or dwelling spaces. Informal trading refers to transactions that take place outside the officially recognised system of land management and property ownership. One of the aims of the research is to find out more about the transaction process that people engage with.
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    Informal urban land markets and the poor

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Urban land markets exist in poorer parts of South African cities. Within these informal markets people access, hold and trade land in an organised way that is influenced primarily by social relationships.
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    Informal land registration in urban areas

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Informal land registration often arises where people do not have access to the formal state system of land registration. But as the desire and need exist to gain access to urban land, to secure rights in relation to that land and also to trade land, a localised registration system that meets these needs tends to emerge.
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    Municipal rates policies and the urban poor

    Urban LandMark, 2009
    In urban areas, the poor struggle to access well located land in cities and legal, institutional and procedural constraints impede secondary residential property markets from functioning effectively in black townships. The purpose of this paper is to examine how municipal property rates policies are, or could be, used as an instrument to promote access by the poor to urban land markets.
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    Land governance and its influence on access to urban land

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Millions of black South Africans live in the peri-urban areas. However, government programmes, development planning, and environmental requirements, and the current land and housing markets do not allow poorer people realise their aspirations to access peri-urban land.
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    Urban land development in practice

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Developers study the property market carefully and then, based on the property cycle, and risk and profit calculations, they acquire land and develop it, with a specific product in mind. Municipalities play a governance role, and are mandated to ensure that the development is in line with government policies and development plans for the area.
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    Land management and democratic governance in the city of Johannesburg

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    Land Management embraces systems of land administration, land use management, land information management, and land taxation. Land management is generally understood in South Africa as the manner in which land is controlled, managed, planned for, utilised and transacted.
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    Rising powers and the African security landscape

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    As the rising powers of China, Brazil, India and South Africa extend their economic engagement in Africa, they are also gradually becoming more involved in the African peace and security agenda. The four articles in this report describe and analyse how these rising powers are engaging with the African security landscape:
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    Co-existing urban land use management practices

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Land use management systems are based on power, who has access to power in a particular area and at a particular time, and what conflicts, negotiations or compromises might exist between various powers or authorities.

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