181
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Urban Pulse

Cultural variables differ informal settlement interventions in Accra and Buenos Aires

ORCID Icon
Pages 13-22 | Received 19 Oct 2022, Accepted 02 Jul 2023, Published online: 17 Jul 2023

References

  • Accra Metropolitan Assembly. (2019). Accra resilience strategy.
  • Akinola, S. (2016). Urbanization, collective action and coping strategies in informal areas of African cities: A polycentric environmental planning perspective. In S. Attia, S. Shabka, Z. Shafik, & A. Ibrahim (Eds.), Dynamics and resilience of informal areas: International perspectives (pp. 5–24). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29948-8_1
  • Amoako, C., & Inkoom, D. K. B. (2018). The production of flood vulnerability in Accra. Ghana: Re-Thinking Flooding and Informal Urbanisation. Urban Studies, 55(13), 2903–2922. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016686526
  • Auyero, J. (2000). The Hyper-Shantytown: neo-liberal violence(s) in the Argentine Slum. Ethnography, 1(1), 93–116. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661380022230651
  • Auyero, J. (2001). La Política de los Pobres: Las Prácticas Clientelistas del Peronismo. Manantial.
  • Awumbila, M., Owusu, G., & Teye, J. K. (2014). Can rural-urban migration into slums reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana [Working Paper]. Migrating out of Poverty RPC. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Can-Rural-Urban-Migration-into-Slums-Reduce-Poverty-Awumbila-Owusu/4ce28d525c0bcd6d8c3c0386f9f9bc6cea2495b0.
  • Bastia, T. (2015). Transnational migration and urban informality: Ethnicity in Buenos Aires’ informal settlements. Urban Studies, 52(10), 1810–1825. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014540346
  • Bastia, T., & Montero Bressán, J. (2018). Between a guest and an Okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires’ informal settlements. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(1), 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17736312
  • Bellardi, M., & De Paula, A. (1986). Villas Miseria: Origen, Erradicación y Respuestas Populares. Centro Editor de América Latina.
  • Bertelli, L. (2021). What kind of global city? Circulating policies for ‘slum’. Upgrading in the making of world-class Buenos Aires. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(6), 1293–1313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X21996356
  • Blaustein, E. (2006). Prohibido Vivir Aqui: La Erradicacion de las Villas Durante la Dictadura. Punto de Encuentro.
  • Brenner, N., & Schmid, C. (2015). Towards a new epistemology of the urban? City, 19(2–3), 151–182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2015.1014712
  • Buenos Aires Ciudad. (2018). Buenos Aires resilience strategy.
  • Cobbinah, P. B., & Darkwah, R. M. (2017). Urban planning and politics in Ghana. GeoJournal, 82(6), 1229–1245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-016-9750-y
  • De Angelis, M. (2007). The beginning of history: Value struggles and global capital. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18mvp2n
  • De-Graft Aikins, A., & Ofori-Atta, A. L. (2007). Homelessness and mental health in Ghana: Everyday experiences of Accra’s migrant squatters. Journal of Health Psychology, 12(5), 761–778. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105307080609
  • Deuskar, C. (2022). Urban planning in a world of informal politics (First edition.). University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • DGEyC. (2011). Resultados Provisionales del Censo Nacional de Poblacio´ n, Hogares y Viviendas 2010 en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Direccio´ n General de Estadı´ sticas y Censos.
  • Dovey, K., & King, R. (2011). Forms of informality: Morphology and visibility of informal settlements. Built Environment (1978-), 37(1), 11–29. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.37.1.11
  • Dovey, K., Shafique, T., van Oostrum, M., & Chatterjee, I. (2021). Informal settlement is not a euphemism for “slum”: what’s at stake beyond the language? International Development Planning Review, 43(2), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.14
  • Gillespie, T. (2016). Accumulation by urban dispossession: Struggles over urban space in Accra, Ghana. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(1), 66–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12105
  • IDB. (2017). De Villa a Barrio: Integración social y urbana en Buenos Aires. Ciudades Sostenibles. https://blogs.iadb.org/ciudades-sostenibles/es/villa-31/.
  • Keeling, D. J. (1996). Buenos Aires: Global dreams, local crises. Wiley.
  • Mcfarlane, C. (2010). The comparative city: Knowledge, learning, urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(4), 725–742. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00917.x
  • Merklen, D. (1997). Organización Comunitaria y Práctica Política. Las Ocupaciones de Tierras en el Conurbano de Buenos Aires. Nueva Sociedad, 149, 162–177. https://static.nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/2599_1.pdf
  • Motta, J. M., & Almansi, F. (2017). Gestión y Planificación por Proceso-proyecto para el Mejoramiento de Villas y Asentamientos de Gran Escala. El Caso de la Re-Urbanización de Villa 20 en la CABA. Medio Ambiente y Urbanización, 86(1), 145–168.
  • Ocheje, P. D. (2007). “In the Public Interest”: Forced Evictions, Land Rights and Human Development in Africa. Journal of African Law, 51(2), 173–214. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855306000209
  • Ong, A. (2011). Introduction: Worlding cities, or the Art of being global. In Worlding cities (pp. 1–26). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444346800.ch
  • Owusu, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Lund, R. (2008). Slums of hope and slums of despair: Mobility and livelihoods in Nima. Accra. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 62(3), 180–190. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950802335798
  • Paller, J. (2012). Political Accountability in Ghanaian Slums: Evidence from the Grassroots (Briefing Paper 11:1). Ghana Center for Democratic Development.
  • Paller, J. (2019). Democracy in Ghana: Everyday politics in urban Africa. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108578721
  • Peattie, L. R. (1994). An argument for slums. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 13(2), 136–143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X9401300205
  • Robinson, J. (2011). Cities in a world of cities: The comparative gesture. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00982.x
  • Robinson, J. (2016). Thinking cities through elsewhere: Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies. Progress in Human Geography, 40(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515598025
  • Robinson, J. (2022). Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice. Urban Studies, 59(8), 1521–1535. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221092561
  • Roy, A. (2009). The 21st-century metropolis: New geographies of theory. Regional Studies, 43(6), 819–830. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701809665
  • Roy, A., & Ong, A. (2011). Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Schmid, C., Karaman, O., Hanakata, N. C., Kallenberger, P., Kockelkorn, A., Sawyer, L., Streule, M., & Wong, K. P. (2018). Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach. Urban Studies, 55(1), 19–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017739750
  • TECHO. (2016). Relevamiento de Asentamientos Informales. https://www.techo.org/argentina.
  • Torres, H. (1975). Evolución de los Procesos de Estructuración Espacial Urbana. El Caso de Buenos Aires. Desarrollo Económico, 15(58), 281–306. https://doi.org/10.2307/3466262
  • United Nations. (2015). Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
  • Van Gelder, J.-L. (2007). Feeling and thinking: Quantifying the relationship between perceived tenure security and housing improvement in an informal neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. Habitat International, 31(2), 219–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2007.02.002
  • Van Gelder, J.-L., Cravino, M. C., & Ostuni, F. (2016). Housing informality in Buenos Aires: Past, present and future? Urban Studies, 53(9), 1958–1975. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015581801
  • World Bank. (2017). Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation Project—Project Appraisal Document.
  • Ziccardi, A. (1983). Villas Miseria y Favelas: Sobre las Relaciones Entre las Instituciones del Estado y la Organización Social en las Democracias de los Años Sesenta. Revista mexicana de sociología, 45(1), 45–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/3540316

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.