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Urban areas as defined by the Census Bureau are densely-populated areas with at least 50,000 people ("urbanized areas") and densely-populated areas with 2,500 to 50,000 people ("urban clusters").

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New book on Mekong examines key land issues featuring extensive research

8 December 2021
Authors: 
Romy Sato
Daniel Hayward
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land distribution
environment
urban areas
land grabbing
land rights
dispossession
migration
land access
land stakeholders

Curating land information is part of our daily work in the Land Portal. It includes selecting, categorizing, and enriching information with analysis and/or additional data, graphic visualizations, etc. In times with so much information available to choose from, people are increasingly seeking sources that offer selections of high-quality knowledge and provide analysis that make sense of it. Understanding how partners in the land community are meeting this demand is a great source for us to improve our work of curating, and providing meaning to land data.

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land Rights in Africa Are About People, Not Paperwork

5 March 2021
Authors: 
Ms. Cynthia Berning
Sub-Saharan Africa
land documentation
gender equity
urban areas
eviction
housing rights
tenure insecurity
women

As part of the Prindex global dataset, people in 34 sub-Saharan countries were asked about their feelings of security or fear regarding possible eviction. Dr Ibrahima Ka and Cynthia Berning share intriguing findings.

Being evicted is one of the most unsettling things that can happen to you – living in fear of eviction is bad for your health and wellbeing and puts your life on hold, stopping you from investing in your future.

The Big Read: As clamour grows for preservation in land-scarce Singapore, something’s got to give

The Big Read: As clamour grows for preservation in land-scarce Singapore, something’s got to give

1 February 2021
Singapore
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land governance
urban planning
environment
urban forestry
protected areas
urban areas
urban land
biodiversity

While green groups spoken to agreed that the Government has become more receptive to their views, they believe it is now time to put conservation or preservation at the front and centre of future development projects.

 

By Navene Elangovan for Channels News Asia (CNA) Singapore

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

What a rapidly urbanising Africa can learn from China’s experience

27 November 2020
Africa
China
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
urban planning
urbanization
urban areas
land markets
compensation
land investments
land valuation
use rights

The parallels between Africa and China’s urbanisation trajectories could offer policymakers potential policy design lessons to learn from. For example, some of China’s recent successes in managing urbanisation, if adequately adapted to the unique and diverse African context, could potentially help the continent’s burgeoning city growth become more sustainable and equitable – but only with careful consideration of local circumstances.

Housing and Land Rights in Kenya

3 July 2020
Authors: 
Mr. Daniel Manyasi
Kenya
Urban Tenure
COVID-19
land policies
urban planning
urbanization
slum upgrading
social housing
slums
urban areas
urban land
land rights
eviction
housing rights

Globally, the UN estimates that 1.6 billion people struggle to find adequate housing. Kenya’s Constitution Article 43(1) (b), provides that ‘every person has the right to accessible and adequate housing and reasonable standards of sanitation’. Kenyans suffer insecurity of tenure and are victims of frequent forceful evictions. This is a country that never follows up on building standards, leave alone rent controls. The current leadership is money-minded and has no interest in public housing.

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

4 April 2020
Authors: 
Dr. Philip Amis
Africa
Southern Asia
Urban Tenure
COVID-19
land governance
urban planning
urbanization
slums
urban areas
informal settlements
informal property
urban population

The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.

Tim Hanstad, President of the Chandler Foundation

ILDC-2020: A brief overview of proceedings

10 March 2020
Authors: 
Narayana Gatty
India
Land Conflicts
customary land rights
food security
housing rights
land governance
land information systems
land tenure
rural areas
sustainable development
urban areas

India-Land and Development Conference (ILDC) – 2020 held in New Delhi from March 2 to 4 saw a lively debate on a wide range of issues relating to India’s land sector. More than 100 academicians, young researchers, activists and policy makers made their presentations in the conference spread across 34 thematic and two plenary sessions. More than 350 delegates participated in the event. 

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The Road to the India Land and Development Conference 2020: An Interview with Dr A. Narayana

26 February 2020
Authors: 
Narayana Gatty
India
land policies
land rights
urban areas

The  4th India Land and Development Conference(link is external), set to start next week, invites a wide variety of individuals and institutions to engage in thought-provoking and interdisciplinary conversations and analyses.  More specifically, the Conference's theme Institutions, Innovations and Informations in Land Governance invites us all to think about us all to think about the role that information sharing can play in helping to ensure effective land governance.

Behind high-rise buildings and skyscrapers hides poverty and inequality in urban Angola

Behind high-rise buildings and skyscrapers hides poverty and inequality in urban Angola

27 January 2020
Authors: 
Antonio Inguane
Angola
Urban Tenure
community land rights
land governance
land rights
land tenure
local communities
tenure security
sustainable development
urban areas

Will skyscrapers one day represent the prosperity that every Angolan citizen has dreamed about? Perhaps.

From the Middle East to North America, high-rise buildings and skyscrapers are cropping up as a symbol of wealth and prosperity in global cities. Modern Africa has experienced unprecedented urban growth and embraced zoning regulations and reforms that incentivize high-density growth and mixed-use buildings in major metropolitan areas. 

During my recent trip to Luanda, the capital of Angola, the first thing that caught my attention was the city’s skyline.

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Urban land reform: rethinking informal settlements in pre-apartheid, apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

8 January 2020
Authors: 
Dr. Mark Napier
Dr. Konrad Hentze
Mrs. Engela Petzer
South Africa
Urban Tenure
land reform
urban areas
informal settlements
housing rights
land ownership
informal property

While urbanization and informal settlements are particularly pronounced problems in Africa,  South Africa has had a long and difficult history with spatial segregation.  The OHCHR reports that apartheid-era legislation in South Africa led to both insecure land rights and a lack of housing for the majority of South Africa’s population.  Housing continues to be an issue in the country.  

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

“This plot is not for sale!”: Land Administration and Land Disputes in Uganda

6 November 2019
Authors: 
Miss Teddy Kisembo
Uganda
Land Conflicts
Urban Tenure
customary tenure
development
freehold
land administration
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land governance
land policies
land tenure
urban areas
urbanization

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

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African Cities Journal

African Cities Journal aspires to gather existing and future knowledge in the field of urban spaces in Africa through original research articles, as well as more prospective endeavours of theory and methodology. 

Area Development and Policy

Area Development and Policy (ADP)

Area Development and Policy (ADP) aims to be a world class journal publishing original academic research examining the economic, political, cultural and geographical contexts which play a fundamental role in shaping and developing regions, cities, rural areas and the relationships between them. ADP concentrates on issues relating to the Greater BRICS and welcomes submissions emerging from these countries as well from the developed world.

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Articulo – Journal of Urban Research

Articulo – Journal of Urban Research is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the exploration of urban issues through the lens of a wide range of social science approaches. The Journal embraces a multidisciplinary perspective on the transformation of social, environmental and economic issues of cities and city regions. Publishing both theoretical and empirical articles, the Journal is an international forum that brings together academics and practitioners working on urban issues in cities around the world to present ground breaking and relevant research.

Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore

Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore (CLC)

The Centre distills key learning points from Singapore’s urban development journey since its independence in 1965, while creating knowledge to address emerging urban challenges. It shares this knowledge with local and international urban leaders, with the aim of positioning Singapore as a global hub for urban solutions. The Centre’s work spans four main areas:

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Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos (CPDH)

O Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos se constitui em um coletivo de Advogados Militantes Populares que tem como objetivo atuar na assessoria jurídica popular junto a movimentos sociais, comunidades e segmentos que sofram violações de direitos.

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Environment and Urbanization

Environment and Urbanization (E&U) seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge. Our focus is the global South, where an estimated one in three of the urban population live in informal settlements and where more than half work within the informal economy. UN projections suggest that almost all the world’s growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in the Global South.

Espaço Feminista do Nordeste para Democracia e Direitos Humanos (EF)

O Espaço Feminista do Nordeste para a Democracia e Direitos Humanos é uma associação civil de direito privado, sem fins lucrativos, não partidária. O Espaço Feminista é uma organização não governamental feminista sediada em Recife, capital do estado de Pernambuco.

Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (FASE)

A FASE – Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional – foi fundada em 1961. É uma organização não governamental, sem fins lucrativos, que atua hoje em seis estados brasileiros e tem sua sede nacional no Rio de Janeiro. Desde suas origens, esteve comprometida com o trabalho de organização e desenvolvimento local, comunitário e associativo.

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Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA)

 

 

Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA) is an educational resource for development practitioners and policy makers that explores how land and natural resource rights affect, and are effected by, development in Africa.  Through raising awareness of these issues, FOLA aims to elevate land and natural resource rights as an urgent priority for development in Africa. 

Fundação Bento Rubião

A Fundação Centro de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos Bento Rubião (FCDDHBR), com sede no Rio de Janeiro, é uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos que visa a redução das desigualdades sociais e atende grupos populacionais que têm seus direitos humanos violados por causa de sua condição étnico-racial, socioeconômica ou de gênero. Tem como objetivo maior empoderá-los, tendo em vista sua missão institucional, a qual, além da defesa dos direitos humanos, inclui o apoio à luta e organização popular em busca do autodesenvolvimento.

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Global Land Alliance

The mission of Global Land Alliance is to enable the prosperity of people and places by advancing learning and practice to achieve land tenure security and the efficient, inclusive and sustainable use of land and natural resources.

We aim to accelerate quality development by resolving land issues with new paradigms of participation and accountability.   We are a think-and-do tank focused on resolving land issues to address four critical development challenges:

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