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Peri-urban land management assessment and strategy in Metsweding district municipality
Urban LandMark, 2008Pro-poor management of “peri-urban” land in the rapidly growing urban areas of South Africa is an increasingly important issue. The peri-urban areas are formerly “rural” localities that are now, due to the rapid expansion of South Africa’s metros and major towns, directly in the path of urbanisation.DocumentRetail centres and township development: a case study
Urban LandMark, 2010The development of shopping centres in township and rural areas in South Africa has increased significantly within the last ten years. This trend has been met with mixed reactions.DocumentAfrica’s urban land markets: piecing together an economic puzzle
Urban LandMark, 2010Understanding 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.DocumentAccess to land in poorer parts of towns and cities
Urban LandMark, 2010As 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.DocumentInformal urban land markets and the poor
Urban LandMark, 2010Urban 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.DocumentInformal land registration in urban areas
Urban LandMark, 2010Informal 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.DocumentMunicipal rates policies and the urban poor
Urban LandMark, 2009In 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.DocumentLand governance and its influence on access to urban land
Urban LandMark, 2010Millions 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.DocumentUrban land development in practice
Urban LandMark, 2010Developers 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.DocumentLand management and democratic governance in the city of Johannesburg
Urban LandMark, 2008Land 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.Pages