1 / 4

African Urbanism: Contesting Formality and Informality in Maputo, Mozambique \

African Urbanism: Contesting Formality and Informality in Maputo, Mozambique . Presentation at NHH/CMI Seminar ‘Cooperation on Urban Development’ Bergen 8 February 2013 Inge Tvedten, CMI. African Urbanism. African cities must be understood on their own terms

bijan
Download Presentation

African Urbanism: Contesting Formality and Informality in Maputo, Mozambique \

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. African Urbanism: Contesting Formality and Informality inMaputo, Mozambique \ Presentation at NHH/CMI Seminar ‘Cooperation on Urban Development’ Bergen 8 February 2013 Inge Tvedten, CMI

  2. African Urbanism • African cities must be understood on their own terms • Capital of Mozambique with 1.1 (1.8) million inhabitants • 70% ‘slum-like characteristics’ and inadequate services • Poverty rate 50%, with increasing inequality • Official: Formal and informal city spaces • Population: Layers of trichoto-mies and dichotomies • No urban development plans for informal settlements/slums – only ‘strategies’

  3. Contested Urban Space • Rapidly changing urban-scape with liberalisation of land and housing market • ‘Slummification’ of sub-urban space, and formalisation of the peri-urban • ‘Inverse governmentality’ and incremental housing have made people feel secure • Now contested by municipal authorities and private capital

  4. Formalising the Informal • The processes of ‘inverse governmentality’ in poor bairros should be protected and sup-ported • Urban services (roads, water, electricity, waste collection) through strategic planning/ community processes • Policy implementation by selecting ‘test-bairros’ for implementation • Enforcing a formalisation of PTOs and housing standards will lead to more urban uprisings

More Related