Marie Huchzermeyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 203464 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marie Huchzermeyer |
| PRENOMES | Marie |
| SOBRENOME | Huchzermeyer |
| ASSINATURA | HUCHZERMEYER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3209-5449 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Critical planning advocacy in solidarity in the pursuit of informal settlement upgrading in Harry Gwala and Slovo Park, Greater Johannesburg
The in situ upgrading of impoverished, unsanctioned neighbourhoods in South Africa is envisaged in an Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme in the National Housing Code. However, implementation is obstructed by a unitary planning system, reinforced by the dominant programme under the housing subsidy system. This paper critically reflects on technical planning assistance the author and close colleagues lent to the representative committees o…
Everyday Urban Practices in Africa
A lan M ayne . Slums
The word “slum” has been in English usage since the early nineteenth century. Alan Mayne’s Slums: The History of a Global Injustice traces a colloquial origin, finding the term described in dictionaries of vulgar language and slang around that time. These descriptions imply that “slum” referred not only to inadequate physical standards of dwellings but also to the lowly if not criminal reputation of the inhabitants. Mayne convincingly traces a co…
The legal meaning of Lefebvre’s the right to the city
Coproducing inclusive cities? Addressing knowledge gaps and conflicting rationalities between self-provisioned housing and state-led housing programmes
Invoking Lefebvre's ‘right to the city’ in South Africa today
In South Africa, the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban invokes a Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city while embarking on rights-based action as one of several approaches it employs. In a recent City article, Shannon Walsh frames the use of the right to the city by social movements in South Africa as having liberalizing and neutralizing effects, and as subverting the social antagonisms inherent in capitalism. This pape…
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With contributions from scholars from the fields of economics, law,…
Tenement cities
Pounding at the Tip of the Iceberg
This article traces the evolution of the South African target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 within the political position of the Ministry of Housing. It shows an interaction as well as a disjuncture with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with South African policy and legislation. In so doing, the article differentiates between an indirect engagement in policy with the causes of land invasion, and a direct (ic…
A Right to Housing
Slum Upgrading in Nairobi within the Housing and Basic Services Market
This article addresses the high level of commercialization of shelter and basic services in Nairobi, and its implication for slum upgrading in Kenya. The article is based on a review of published and grey literature, and on qualitative interviews with slum residents as well as with landlords, tenants and stakeholders in Nairobi's multi-storey tenements. The Kenyan government's conceptualization of slum upgrading inserts benefits into a highly dis…
Tenement City
Large-scale private landlordism dominates low-income housing provision in Nairobi, with extreme residential densities in districts where rooming tenements reach seven floors above ground. This trend differs from the small-scale private landlordism, predominantly with owner occupation, which has been documented for the developing world. Nairobi's large-scale multi-storey private rental has remained unmentioned in housing and tenure literature on t…
Challenges facing people-driven development in the context of a strong, delivery-oriented state
From “contravention of laws” to “lack of rights”
Housing rights in South Africa
A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
Control over the urbanization process in South Africa was redefined after the mid-1980s, when the policy of 'orderly urbanization' replaced that of racially based 'influx control'. In the early 1990s, under the inspiration of the private sector-funded policy think tank, the Urban Foundation, a standardized capital subsidy was introduced as a means of financing the orderly settlement of poor households on peri-urban land. Currently, the capital su…
Upgrading through the project-linked capital subsidy
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Informal Settlements
The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the perpetuation of urban informal settlements? The parallels and contrasts in informal-settlement pol…
Consent and contradiction
Housing for the poor? Negotiated housing policy in South Africa
Illegal cities
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Slum Upgrading in Nairobi within the Housing and Basic Services Market
This article addresses the high level of commercialization of shelter and basic services in Nairobi, and its implication for slum upgrading in Kenya. The article is based on a review of published and grey literature, and on qualitative interviews with slum residents as well as with landlords, tenants and stakeholders in Nairobi's multi-storey tenements. The Kenyan government's conceptualization of slum upgrading inserts benefits into a highly dis…
Housing for the poor? Negotiated housing policy in South Africa
A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
Control over the urbanization process in South Africa was redefined after the mid-1980s, when the policy of 'orderly urbanization' replaced that of racially based 'influx control'. In the early 1990s, under the inspiration of the private sector-funded policy think tank, the Urban Foundation, a standardized capital subsidy was introduced as a means of financing the orderly settlement of poor households on peri-urban land. Currently, the capital su…
Pounding at the Tip of the Iceberg
This article traces the evolution of the South African target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 within the political position of the Ministry of Housing. It shows an interaction as well as a disjuncture with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with South African policy and legislation. In so doing, the article differentiates between an indirect engagement in policy with the causes of land invasion, and a direct (ic…
Tenement City
Large-scale private landlordism dominates low-income housing provision in Nairobi, with extreme residential densities in districts where rooming tenements reach seven floors above ground. This trend differs from the small-scale private landlordism, predominantly with owner occupation, which has been documented for the developing world. Nairobi's large-scale multi-storey private rental has remained unmentioned in housing and tenure literature on t…
The legal meaning of Lefebvre’s the right to the city
From “contravention of laws” to “lack of rights”
Informal Settlements
The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the perpetuation of urban informal settlements? The parallels and contrasts in informal-settlement pol…
Coproducing inclusive cities? Addressing knowledge gaps and conflicting rationalities between self-provisioned housing and state-led housing programmes
Invoking Lefebvre's ‘right to the city’ in South Africa today
In South Africa, the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban invokes a Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city while embarking on rights-based action as one of several approaches it employs. In a recent City article, Shannon Walsh frames the use of the right to the city by social movements in South Africa as having liberalizing and neutralizing effects, and as subverting the social antagonisms inherent in capitalism. This pape…
Illegal cities
Consent and contradiction
Housing for the poor? Negotiated housing policy in South Africa
Upgrading through the project-linked capital subsidy
Contentious development
This paper reviews the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa. This research has been led by multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies that have sought to find a role in urban development. The review finds that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive. It has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious peri-urban transformations associated with globalization. The paper iden…
Informal Settlements
The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the perpetuation of urban informal settlements? The parallels and contrasts in informal-settlement pol…
Housing rights in South Africa
A legacy of control? The capital subsidy for housing, and informal settlement intervention in South Africa
Control over the urbanization process in South Africa was redefined after the mid-1980s, when the policy of 'orderly urbanization' replaced that of racially based 'influx control'. In the early 1990s, under the inspiration of the private sector-funded policy think tank, the Urban Foundation, a standardized capital subsidy was introduced as a means of financing the orderly settlement of poor households on peri-urban land. Currently, the capital su…
From “contravention of laws” to “lack of rights”
Challenges facing people-driven development in the context of a strong, delivery-oriented state
Tenement City
Large-scale private landlordism dominates low-income housing provision in Nairobi, with extreme residential densities in districts where rooming tenements reach seven floors above ground. This trend differs from the small-scale private landlordism, predominantly with owner occupation, which has been documented for the developing world. Nairobi's large-scale multi-storey private rental has remained unmentioned in housing and tenure literature on t…
A Right to Housing
Slum Upgrading in Nairobi within the Housing and Basic Services Market
This article addresses the high level of commercialization of shelter and basic services in Nairobi, and its implication for slum upgrading in Kenya. The article is based on a review of published and grey literature, and on qualitative interviews with slum residents as well as with landlords, tenants and stakeholders in Nairobi's multi-storey tenements. The Kenyan government's conceptualization of slum upgrading inserts benefits into a highly dis…
Pounding at the Tip of the Iceberg
This article traces the evolution of the South African target to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 within the political position of the Ministry of Housing. It shows an interaction as well as a disjuncture with the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with South African policy and legislation. In so doing, the article differentiates between an indirect engagement in policy with the causes of land invasion, and a direct (ic…
Tenement cities
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With contributions from scholars from the fields of economics, law,…
Invoking Lefebvre's ‘right to the city’ in South Africa today
In South Africa, the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban invokes a Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city while embarking on rights-based action as one of several approaches it employs. In a recent City article, Shannon Walsh frames the use of the right to the city by social movements in South Africa as having liberalizing and neutralizing effects, and as subverting the social antagonisms inherent in capitalism. This pape…
Coproducing inclusive cities? Addressing knowledge gaps and conflicting rationalities between self-provisioned housing and state-led housing programmes
The legal meaning of Lefebvre’s the right to the city
A lan M ayne . Slums
The word “slum” has been in English usage since the early nineteenth century. Alan Mayne’s Slums: The History of a Global Injustice traces a colloquial origin, finding the term described in dictionaries of vulgar language and slang around that time. These descriptions imply that “slum” referred not only to inadequate physical standards of dwellings but also to the lowly if not criminal reputation of the inhabitants. Mayne convincingly traces a co…
Everyday Urban Practices in Africa
Critical planning advocacy in solidarity in the pursuit of informal settlement upgrading in Harry Gwala and Slovo Park, Greater Johannesburg
The in situ upgrading of impoverished, unsanctioned neighbourhoods in South Africa is envisaged in an Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme in the National Housing Code. However, implementation is obstructed by a unitary planning system, reinforced by the dominant programme under the housing subsidy system. This paper critically reflects on technical planning assistance the author and close colleagues lent to the representative committees o…
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