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    Township renewal: Kwamashu case study

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    The restructuring of local government in South Africa began in the mid-1990s. A number of smaller local councils in the greater Durban area were amalgamated into a single metropolitan municipality, and the boundaries of the city were expanded to incorporate a number of new areas.
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    Improving urban management in township

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Improving urban management is a crucial precondition for developing South African townships. While the urban management deficit in these areas has deep historical roots, an array of contemporary problems also needs to be overcome if improvements are to be realised.
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    Packaging township development projects

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    There are no simple solutions for leveraging the project inputs required for the success of township development projects. In most cases, such projects require long planning and implementation periods, the involvement of numerous agencies, and ample persistence and skill.
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    Township replanning: the case of INK

    Urban LandMark, 2009
    The townships of Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu (INK) are about 25km north of the Durban city centre. The area covers 9340ha of land, and is home to about 580,000 people (18 per cent of Durban’s population) in 115,136 households.
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    Reducing the vulnerability of urban slum dwellers in the Southern African region to the impact of climate change and disasters

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Current estimates of climate change state that the world’s average temperature is due to increase by at least 2oC to 2.4oC over the next 50‐100 years.
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    Fighting for land security in Southern Africa

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    It has emerged quite clearly from Urban LandMark’s work in South Africa – and increasingly in the region – that the emergence of more sophisticated property markets has taken place locally and in most larger cities in the region.
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    Urban land markets in Southern African cities

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    The cities in southern Africa reflect the rapid urbanisation characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa in general. Angola, Botswana and South Africa have the highest levels of urbanisation with about 60% of their population living in cities in 2010 and this percentage is expected to rise to about 80% by 2050.
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    Urban Land Markets in East Africa

    2011
    The cities in the East African region are characterised by rapid urbanisation and uncontrolled spatial sprawl, with large informal settlements and inadequate service provision. The research study investigates how urban land markets operate in such a context, and particularly, how effectively poor people can access, trade and hold land.
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    Small-scale Private Rental in South Africa

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Small-scale private rental is an international phenomenon, and is not unique to South Africa. This sub-sector is generally one of the most successful, efficient and pervasive accommodation delivery systems in South Africa. Of the 2.4-million South African households that rent their primary accommodation, 850 000 (35%) occupy small-scale private rental units.
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    Strategies to help poor people access urban land markets

    2011
    City planners mostly agree that poor people need to be better located in cities to improve their access to social amenities and economic opportunities. Living, trading or producing goods on better located land also gives people access to markets, which improves the potential for sustainable poverty alleviation.

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