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Since 2008, there has been a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that can move beyond speculative interests and are based instead on models of co-ownership, co-production, and co-management. Hence the concept of the cooperative has experienced a true renaissance in recent years. This book explores how cooperative housing construction and forms of self-determined building production might offer effective solutions to the global housing crisis, moving us closer to a more equitable and sustainable future through systematic change. With case studies from Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Uruguay, Ethiopia, and China, as well as a glossary of important terms

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone /Till Förster and and Carole Ammann -- The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces /Edgar Pieterse -- Urban Governance -- Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview /Warren Smit -- Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda /Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin -- Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? /Claire Bénit-Gbaffou -- Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone -- Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? /Ton Dietz -- Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia /Lalli Metsola -- Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation /Sascha Delz -- Accra's Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? /Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu -- The Rural-Urban Continuum -- The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation /Garth Myers -- Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men's Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) /Sebastian Prothmann -- The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi /Florian Stoll -- Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo /Karen Büscher.