Informal settlements: poverty traps or ladders to work?
SOURCE: Econ3x3
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Turok
KEYWORDS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, URBAN RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT (URD)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9039
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9328
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9328
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Turok
KEYWORDS: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, URBAN RENEWAL AND DEVELOPMENT (URD)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9039
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9328
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9328
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Abstract
Informal urban settlements have a poor reputation as hotspots of social unrest, squalor and crime. Yet there is another side to them: as communities that are determined to lift themselves out of poverty via jobs in the city. In a society marked by severe social and spatial inequalities, these places may be useful vehicles for upward mobility. The ambivalence of government policy towards informal settlements needs to be replaced by a more positive approach.-
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