Leuven and Brussels, Belgium, 23-26 May 2001
COPING WITH INFORMALITY AND ILLEGALITY
IN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS IN DEVELOPING CITIES
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Robert Home
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In postcolonial Africa the legal distinctions between tribal, private and state (or municipal) land are a major contributor to peri-urban settlement outside formal regulatory control. Colonial policies of indirect rule and urban management, consolidated under apartheid ideology, allocated land for Africans outside municipal boundaries in 'locations', and in rural areas under tribal, communal or customary tenure arrangements. Rural-urban migrants can access land for housing more easily and cheaply where customary land comes close to urban areas, and such areas generally lack the local government capacity to facilitate planning and infrastructure provision. A case study of an informal settlement outside Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, will explore attempts by government to provide serviced plots and clarify the legal position of owners and occupiers, investigate some of the issues raised, and propose more inclusive and pro-active approaches to the management of urban growth, including techniques of land pooling and re-apportionment.
N-AERUS: Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South
http://www.naerus.net