Research Programmes
Urban Land Question
There are many characterizations/variants of the urban land and housing question, from overcrowding and squatting (Shivji et al 1998), illegal land occupations and planning challenges (Butcher, 1986, 1988, 1997), competing land uses and impact on the environment (Toriro, 2003) and also issues of access to land by the urban poor. However it is important to note that the subject has not been comprehensively researched and hence there is a dearth of information with regards to current data on the demand and the conflicts that ensue in the processes of allocation.
The purpose of the programme is to investigate the unique characteristics of the urban land question as separated from the national land question, to understand the scope and intensity of the urban land question in terms of supply and demand for the land and housing for the low income workers.
Such an analysis entails an interrogation of the political contestations that inform urban land policy, various competing land use patterns (emerging and traditional, economic and social, etc), land costs and policy priorities in terms of land allocations and other necessary resources for housing and other social services.
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- The Urban Land and Housing Question: Social Reproduction and Order: (The context and implications of ' Operation Restore Order')
- Urban Land and Housing Question
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