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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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    Maputo and informal land tenure arrangements

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    It is clear that despite the legislation that governs land, people have their own widely accepted and low conflict land management system in urban areas, which involves multiple role-players. This finding is backed up by the negligible occurrence of the DUAT in the two neighbourhoods surveyed.
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    Angola and informal land tenure arrangements: towards an inclusive land policy

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    Angola, like Mozambique, inherited its legal framework from the Portuguese Civil Code, which was not based on a traditional African concept of community occupation under customary law.
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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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