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Professional development aims to find practical ways to enhance the skills in the dominant professions dealing with the urban land question and urban land markets, so that they can better cater for the urban poor.
Training for Township Renewal Initiative (TTRI)
Initiated in 2007, the Training for Township Renewal Initiative (TTRI) aims to develop an understanding of the needs and dynamics of South Africa's townships, as well as the various ways of transforming them into functional and sustainable neighbourhoods. The initiative is a joint venture between the Neighbourhood Development Programme of the National Treasury, the Urban Renewal Programme of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the Knowledge Unit of the South African Cities Network, and the Sustainable Communities Initiative of the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
During the first TTRI Overview course, which took place from 29 October to 2 November 2007, Urban Landmark made the following presentations on the theme Economic Dimensions: Activating Markets within Townships:
The second Township Renewal Overview course took place from 1 - 4 June 2009 in Durban. The second day of the course was allocated to Urban LandMark to address the theme Unlocking Township Markets. This module comprised the following presentations:
Read an article by Abueng Matlapeng on TTRI 2
Certificate Programme in Housing Policy Development and Management
Urban LandMark participates in the Certificate Programme in Housing Policy Development and Management, a bi-annual four-week course offered by the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management. Urban Landmark made the following presentations during the second module of the 2009 course, titled Establishment of Sustainable Human Settlements:
Teaching and learning material
Urban LandMark is developing teaching and learning material from some of the research reports produced over the past three years. These include the overview on Unlocking township markets [499KB] presented at the 2nd TTRI course. Material still under development includes the following topics:
- Developers and municipalities
- How the poor access, trade and hold land
- Urban biographies
- Land registration
- Voices of the poor
- Markets happen
Training for Township Renewal Initiative: Sourcebook now available
Initiated in 2007, the Training for Township Renewal Initiative (TTRI) aims to develop an understanding of the needs and dynamics of South Africa's townships, as well as the various ways of transforming them into functional and sustainable neighbourhoods. The Township Renewal Sourcebook published recently by the South African Cities Network comprises a number of presentations, papers and articles presented at TTRI learning events in 2008/9. Module 2 of the Sourcebook, titled Unlocking township markets, was developed by Urban Landmark.
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