Marie Huchzermeyer

TL;DR: The challenge of urban fragmentation: Fragmentation and globalisation as the new Meta-Narrative (Philip Harrison): Urban fragmentation, inequality and social justice (David M. Smith), the degeneration of urban policy after apartheid (Patrick Bond), South Africa's enduring urban crisis: The local state and the urban social movement with particular reference to Johannesburg (Mzwanele Mayekiso), HIV/Aids and urban disintegration in Johannesburg.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace shifts and continuities in recent positions on housing in South Africa and trace their emergence from within the democratic movement including labour and community or civic organisation, and the private sector with its influential Urban Foundation and subsequent policy research institutes.

TL;DR: The role of research in policy advocacy and urban informal settlements in Angola is discussed in this paper, where a review of South African challenges through an international review of the new instrument for upgrading informal settlements is presented.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the current state of literature on peri-urban research in sub-Saharan Africa and found that the donor-driven research has remained largely descriptive and has neither emphasized nor theorized the rapid and contentious periurban transformations associated with globalization.