Urban upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements

Brown-Luthango, M and Reyes E (2017) “Urban Upgrading to reduce violence in informal settlements – the case of Violence Prevention through rban Upgrading (VPUU) in Monwabisi Park, Cape Town in “ Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South, by Gautam Bhan (ed),‎ Smita Srinivas (ed) and Vanessa Watson (ed). Routledge.

Platform
Cape Town
Publication type
Book chapter
ISSN/ISBN
9781138932814
Author(s)
Mercy Brown Luthango Elena Reyes
Published year

 

Abstract

Urban violence is a serious development concern, especially in cities in the South where rapid urbanisation and high rates of poverty and inequality result in very bad living conditions for the majority of urban residents. Violence and violent crime have reached disturbingly high levels in countries like South Africa, Colombia and Brazil and in cities like Nairobi and Lagos (Kessides 2005; Mcllwaine 1999). It is argued that

when a large population group in cities is afflicted by malnutrition, impoverishment, social exclusion and discrimination, ill health and poor conditions as well as restricted access to land and basic infrastructure, increasing levels of criminal violence, lack of safety and general fear in the use of public space are often observed.

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