Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s12132-020-09411-7
Alan Mabin
A century ago, South Africa's first national scheme for financing public housing passed into law. The Housing Act, number 35 of 1920, created a fund administered by a Central Housing Board, from which municipalities could borrow to support construction of houses at a lower interest rate than available elsewhere. The Act came in the aftermath of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919; the Parliament passed the law on 13 August 1920 and it came into effect a few days later. In the circumstances of 2020, millions of publicly subsidized houses later, and in the midst of a global pandemic, this article reflects on a century of public, or state, housing finance, through housing laws and practices that commenced 100 years ago. The article reviews the circumstances of health, housing, economy and politics in the 1918-1920 period. Themes emerge of public health, social control, racism and segregation, but also social democratic and anti-statist ideas. The article then briefly draws such themes through the twentieth century and beyond, leading to a consideration of the circumstances that prevail in the field in 2020, once more in contested conditions of pandemic, scarcity and poverty. The sources of the article include official reports and similar documents, secondary literature and some archival material. The method is historical and discursive.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-07-30DOI: 10.1007/s12132-020-09400-w
Sandra Roque, Miguel Mucavele, Nair Noronha
The paper discusses Maputo municipality's plans for the modernisation of the Mercado do Museu, an iconic informal market located in the high-end Polana neighbourhood, which has long been a place for fervent social encounter among people from different social and economic origins. The Mercado's upgrading plans emerge within the context of Maputo's intensely urban transformation that has led gentrification effects, especially in the city's wealthiest areas. This stems partly from private real estate investment, and also from large infrastructure and housing projects promoted by the Mozambican state. Modernist planning ideals and their ordering impulses shape the way municipal authorities view the city and its spaces of informality, contradicting the urban form produced and lived by the majority of Maputo's inhabitants. While Mercado do Museu has enabled the production of urban social life and the foundations for urban inclusion and citizenship, the modernisation project brings forward "conflicting rationalities" (Watson Planning Theory and Practice, 4(4), 395-407, 2003). However as modernist views of cities are broadly shared across Mozambique's urban society, the "conflicting rationalities" being played out are not only situated around urban material form; but rather between material expressions of urbanity and personhood; between urban form and urban citizenship.
本文讨论了马普托市政府对Mercado do Museu的现代化计划，Mercado do Museu是一个位于高端Polana社区的标志性非正式市场，长期以来一直是来自不同社会和经济来源的人们热烈社交的地方。梅尔卡多的升级计划出现在马普托强烈的城市转型的背景下，这种转型导致了士绅化效应，特别是在城市最富裕的地区。这部分源于私人房地产投资，也源于莫桑比克政府推动的大型基础设施和住房项目。现代主义的规划理念及其有序的冲动塑造了市政当局看待城市及其非正式空间的方式，与马普托大多数居民生产和生活的城市形式相矛盾。虽然梅尔卡多博物馆使城市社会生活的生产和城市包容和公民的基础，现代化项目提出了“矛盾的理性”（沃森规划理论与实践，4(4),395-407,2003）。然而，随着现代主义对城市的看法在莫桑比克的城市社会中得到广泛认同，“矛盾的理性”不仅存在于城市的物质形式中；而是在温文尔雅和人格的物质表达之间；在城市形态与城市公民权之间。
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Pub Date : 2019-12-13DOI: 10.1007/s12132-019-09382-4
D. Muthama, M. Barry, B. Ballantyne
{"title":"Improving Land Tenure Administration Effectiveness in a Post-Conflict Peri-Urban Mombasa Settlement","authors":"D. Muthama, M. Barry, B. Ballantyne","doi":"10.1007/s12132-019-09382-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09382-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"237 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12132-019-09382-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53042139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-10DOI: 10.1007/s12132-019-09383-3
Albert Adu-Gyamfi, E. Antoh
{"title":"Complexities in Homeownership: An Exploration of Socio-Religious and Gender Dimensions","authors":"Albert Adu-Gyamfi, E. Antoh","doi":"10.1007/s12132-019-09383-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09383-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"215 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12132-019-09383-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53042241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s12132-019-09379-z
Sören Scholvin
{"title":"The Diversity of Gateways: Accra, Cape Town and Mauritius as Hinges in Oil and Gas GPNs","authors":"Sören Scholvin","doi":"10.1007/s12132-019-09379-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09379-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"61 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12132-019-09379-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53041878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s12132-019-09377-1
M. M. Sekhwela, Melanie Samson
{"title":"Contested Understandings of Reclaimer Integration—Insights from a Failed Johannesburg Pilot Project","authors":"M. M. Sekhwela, Melanie Samson","doi":"10.1007/s12132-019-09377-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09377-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"21 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12132-019-09377-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53041807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-15DOI: 10.1007/s12132-019-09375-3
Robert Kinlocke, E. Thomas-hope
{"title":"Characterisation, Challenges and Resilience of Small-Scale Food Retailers in Kingston, Jamaica","authors":"Robert Kinlocke, E. Thomas-hope","doi":"10.1007/s12132-019-09375-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09375-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35221,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forum","volume":"30 1","pages":"477 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12132-019-09375-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44635802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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