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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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    Land use management bill regulatory impact review process: development facilitation act review

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Development Facilitation Act (DFA) was created to have in place a strong piece of legislation that would facilitate development, while apartheid development laws were being repealed. The DFA was an extremely innovative and ambitious piece of legislation that was introduced at a specific time in South Africa’s history to address key issues within the environment.
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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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    Voices of the poor: access to urban land

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    In 2007 Urban LandMark undertook a series of consultations as part of the Voices of the Poor project. Four workshops were held in Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. The workshops were attended mostly by civil society organisations as well as NGOs.
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    Formal residential markets in urban areas

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Property market is functioning well for those who are able to participate in it, but for poorer people, for whom the critical requirement of affordability is a barrier, the formal market is not easily accessed. This case study examines the formal urban land and property market in South Africa, its institutions, “rules of the game” and functioning.
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    A long way home: following 26 years of core housing consolidation and the struggle to achieve a sense of dignity

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    The “core housing” concept originated in the 1950s, and has been implemented later in South Africa. This article aims to explore to what extent the South African government’s approach to providing core housing addresses the relevant demands in the context of rapid urbanisation.

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