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This section includes conference papers and position papers.
Urban LandMark Review 2007/2008
The Review outlines and discusses the programme's work in the four theme areas (people, governance, market and place) over the previous year. During 2007/8, the programme’s work has broadened to look at the larger property interests operating in urban areas. Work also focused on exploring how to lower the barriers to entry into the formal land market and to increase the recognition of the rights of people to the land on which they live, trade and conduct their businesses.
Second Economy Strategy Project with Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
The purpose of this project is to contribute to reducing poverty and inequality in South Africa by supporting the government in developing a Strategy for the Second Economy, as part of its Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (Asgi-SA), located in the Presidency. The strategy for the second economy is tasked with finding ways to enhance existing policy and programmes, as well as identifying, developing and designing additional initiatives to ensure these targets are met.
Annual conference 2008
Urban LandMark hosted a conference on August 27th and 28th in Midrand, South Africa. The aim of the conference was to showcase the work of Urban LandMark in pursuit of its mandate to 'make urban land markets work for the poor.' Research highlighted the dimensions of the expansive, dynamic and uneven terrain that constitutes the urban space economy.
Inclusive African Cities Conference summary and full report - held in Johannesburg on 6 and 7 March 2007
This was a joint conference held under the auspices of the Development Bank
of South Africa, the Human Sciences Research Council, the South African Cities Network, the University of the Witwatersrand, the City of Johannesburg and Urban Landmark. The conference aimed to explore inclusion and exclusion through three broad themes: access to urban resources and infrastructure - material inclusion and exclusion; constructing urban citizenship(s) in everyday lives; emerging experiences of inclusion in African cities and what they teach us about cities.
The first edition of the SACN's Inclusive Cities Annual brings together reports on knowledge-sharing initiatives undertaken during 2007/08 and opinion pieces by leading inclusive cities thinkers. This collection of articles highlights inclusion and exclusion issues within cities, with a view to answering the question of how economic growth can be effectively harnessed towards a better life for all who live and work in South Africa's cities.
Urban Land Visioning towards 2020
Urban LandMark held a workshop with key thinkers in May 2007 to identify trends in the urban land sector and how they are likely to change over time. Two documents resulted from the workshop, namely a document setting out the current status of the land sector in South Africa and a vision based on an extension of the current status quo; and a document setting out the interventions proposed by the participants at the workshop and the future scenario that emerged as a result of these interventions.
Eight Papers from the 2006 Urban Land Seminar
- Making urban land markets work for the poor in the context of existing local land access and transfer institutions
Author: Lauren Royston - Paper [160KB] | Presentation [49KB]. Respondent: Warren Smit - Presentation [22KB]
- Attacking urban poverty with housing: toward more effective land markets
Author: Catherine Cross - Paper [199KB] | Presentation [138KB]. Respondent: Maurice Makhathini - Notes [24KB]
- Conceptualising 'the economy' to make urban land markets work for the poor
Author: Colin Marx - Paper [231KB]. Respondent: Sophie Oldfield - Notes [20KB]
- Regulatory systems and making urban land markets work for the poor in South Africa
Authors: Michael Kihato and Stephen Berrisford - Paper [261KB] | Presentation [56KB]. Respondent: Rogier van den Brink - Presentation [29KB]
- Capturing unearned value/ leakages to assist markets to work for the poor
Author: Mercy Brown-Luthango - Paper [184KB] | Presentation [324KB]. Respondent: Nigel Tapela - Notes [52KB]
- Land use differentiation, class differentiation and the urban land market - international and SA frameworks in MMW4P perspective
Author: Jeff McCarthy - Paper [942KB] | Presentation [808KB]. Respondent: Kecia Rust - Presentation [99KB]
- Opening up spaces for the poor in the urban form: trends, challenges and their implications for access to urban land
Authors: Karina Landman and Nana Ntombela - Paper [259KB] | Presentation [827KB]. Respondent: Alison Todes - Presentation [14KB]
- Thoughts on developing a South African advocacy position on urban land
Author: Sarah Charlton - Paper [316KB] | Presentation [30KB].
Background papers to the 2006 Urban Land Seminar
These papers are for information only and are not necessarily an indication of the ideological position of the workshop.
- Making market systems work better for the poor: An introduction to the concept [472KB]
Discussion paper prepared for the Asian Development Bank-Department for International Development learning event, ADB Headquarters, Manila, 2005. Author: DFID
- The role and function of urban land markets in market economies [25KB]
Paper presented at the Workshop on Privatisation of Land in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, May 1993. Author: DE Dowall
- Making urban land markets work for the poor: debates and positions [150KB]
Excerpts from programme proposal to DFlD, 2005. Authors: David Porteous, Kecia Rust, Tam Doan and Elizabeth Franke
- Scoping study: urban land issues [515KB]
Report prepared for DFID-SA, April 2004. Author: Urban Sector Network and Development Works
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