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Rethinking Emerging Land Markets in Rapidly Growing Southern African Cities

Authors: Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Lauren Royston

Published in: Urban Forum | Issue 1/2013

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In less than three decades, the majority of Africa's population will be living in the continent's cities. This shift from rural to urban life has social, political and economic implications as the city and its people convert rural land resources into urban use. Urban sprawl into former rural lands is already evident. From Dar-es-Salaam to Cotonou, Luanda to Kinshasa, the expansion of the city's edge is changing people's relationship to land, the institutions of land governance and the land economy. As cities grow and change, so too do the ways urbanising households acquire, hold, exchange and regulate land. …

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Title: Rethinking Emerging Land Markets in Rapidly Growing Southern African Cities
Authors: Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Lauren Royston
Publication date: 01-03-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Urban Forum / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-012-9176-7

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