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Raban Chanda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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landuse policy and Squatter settlements the case of peri urban areas in botswana
Applied Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ikopoleng Shabane, Musisi Nkambwe, Raban ChandaAbstract:Abstract This paper uses a case study from Botswana in the context of southern Africa, to assess the effort of Botswana to integrate peri-urban Squatter areas into urban planning. In a compromise to minimise the numbers of Squatters that would suffer from eviction, Botswana allowed some of the Squatters to pay fines, regularize their plots, and avoid eviction. Data obtained from interviews, mapping of peri-urban developments using ArcGIS, and observations from fieldwork, were all used to evaluate the impact of this compromise on integrating Squatters into mainstream planning. Results revealed that the compromise introduced unfair advantages in favour of Squatters who legalized their plots in terms of comparative size of plots. It also augmented conflicts in the planned layouts.
R G Healey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a gis approach to spatial modelling for Squatter settlement planning in kuala lumpur malaysia
Environment and Planning B-planning & Design, 1994Co-Authors: A Yaakup, R G HealeyAbstract:The most pressing problems of rapid urbanisation in Kuala Lumpur include the need for land, housing, and provision of services. The link with day-to-day planning problems, how ever, remains a critical problem. The quality of the planning and decisionmaking process can be substantially improved when valid data are appropriately and efficiently handled. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the use of geographic information systems (GISs) in evaluating alternative solutions to Squatter problems. After the initial development of the GIS database, it has been used to produce various scenarios which take into account the socioeconomic characteristics of the Squatters, the constraints of the physical layout of existing Squatter settlements, availability of land, and site suitability of different kinds of development. Spatial modelling techniques are employed to examine alternative plans for the Squatter areas. These plans are evaluated by means of cost-benefit analysis incorporated into the GIS database. The authors also discuss the development of an interactive graphic user-interface to the GIS for Squatter planning and management. This is intended to facilitate user access to Squatter-planning scenarios. The interface provides flexibility in data selection and display, to allow physical planners and decision-makers to view and analyse the planning scenarios interactively before deciding on the final plan. In a concluding section some of the problems encountered are highlighted and factors which need to be considered if GIS is to be employed in this type of exercise are indicated.
Ikopoleng Shabane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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landuse policy and Squatter settlements the case of peri urban areas in botswana
Applied Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ikopoleng Shabane, Musisi Nkambwe, Raban ChandaAbstract:Abstract This paper uses a case study from Botswana in the context of southern Africa, to assess the effort of Botswana to integrate peri-urban Squatter areas into urban planning. In a compromise to minimise the numbers of Squatters that would suffer from eviction, Botswana allowed some of the Squatters to pay fines, regularize their plots, and avoid eviction. Data obtained from interviews, mapping of peri-urban developments using ArcGIS, and observations from fieldwork, were all used to evaluate the impact of this compromise on integrating Squatters into mainstream planning. Results revealed that the compromise introduced unfair advantages in favour of Squatters who legalized their plots in terms of comparative size of plots. It also augmented conflicts in the planned layouts.
Alan Smart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Squatter Settlement Clearance
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2020Co-Authors: Alan SmartAbstract:Squatter clearance – the destruction of buildings, and the removal of people who are identified by governmental auth orities as having no legal rights to the land on which they live – is one of the possible fates that the world’s one billion Squatters face. Not all Squatters experience clearance: long-term tolerance, legalisation, or in situ resettlement are other possible outcomes. The expected trajectory for a settlement affects its characteristics, as investment in housing upgrading is either encouraged or discouraged, and as different types of residents are attracted. Research on Squatter clearance has taken a variety of approaches: explaining why government policies regarding clearance are adopted, exploring the social effects of these policies, and recording the conditions under which protests emerge against displacement. Research has had some influence on prevailing policies, by encouraging legalisation and Squatter upgrading; however, a great deal of Squatter clearance without resettlement still occurs. Much of the current literature includes Squatter clearance within the broader term ‘forced eviction’. There are three principal modes of eviction with distinct dynamics: political, judicial, and bureaucratic.
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impeded self help toleration and the proscription of housing consolidation in hong kong s Squatter areas
Habitat International, 2003Co-Authors: Alan SmartAbstract:Abstract This article develops the literature on housing consolidation in Squatter areas by examining a case where the improvement of Squatter dwellings has been consistently proscribed, rather than encouraged, since 1954. Hong Kong devotes significant resources to patrolling and monitoring irregular settlements to ensure that residents do not expand or improve the quality of building materials of their dwellings. I first review what is known about the conditions under which Squatter housing is improved. I then suggest an explanation for this unusual situation in the context of the history of squatting and its control in postwar Hong Kong. I then use recent ethnographic fieldwork to provide an account of the way in which the proscription of Squatter housing improvement is implemented on the ground.
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agents of eviction the Squatter control and clearance division of hong kong s housing department
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2002Co-Authors: Alan SmartAbstract:More is known about the policies that produce forced evictions and their consequences than about the agencies whose responsibility it is to conduct them. Understanding the nature of forced evictions requires greater comprehension of responsible agencies since the ways in which they implement policies may be a crucial intervening variable influencing the outcomes. In this paper, I use documentary and ethnographic research to describe the Squatter Control and Clearance Division of the Hong Kong Housing Department. Responsible both for evicting Squatters and for controlling Squatter areas that are permitted to remain for the time being, officers must respond to the conflicts and challenges of their twin, partially conflicting, mandates. Examination of changes in Squatter control and clearance practices since 1954 is followed by a brief case study of the most recent Squatter clearance that occurred in July 2001.
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unruly places urban governance and the persistence of illegality in hong kong s urban Squatter areas
American Anthropologist, 2001Co-Authors: Alan SmartAbstract:Our knowledge of the governance of cities has expanded in recent years with the application of Foucauldian approaches. However, the majority of such work has concentrated on areas where governmental control is heightened, such as prisons and asylums. In this article, I discuss unruly places where governments have less control than usual: Squatter settlements. Hong Kong has had substantial numbers of Squatters throughout its postwar rise from dire poverty to contemporary prosperity. This article draws on documentary analysis and field research from 1982–85 and 1999–2000 to examine changes in the way that the government attempts to regulate these illegally occupied spaces and the ways in which interaction between administrative interventions and the responses of those living there makes the persistence of illegal occupation possible. I argue that three different phases of regulation can be identified: repression, resettlement, and exclusion. While there is considerable continuity in some practices of intervention such as toleration, the nature and outcomes of such practices vary with the changing context and other features of the regulatory regime, [regulation, Squatters, governance, illegality, Hong Kong]
A Yaakup - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a gis approach to spatial modelling for Squatter settlement planning in kuala lumpur malaysia
Environment and Planning B-planning & Design, 1994Co-Authors: A Yaakup, R G HealeyAbstract:The most pressing problems of rapid urbanisation in Kuala Lumpur include the need for land, housing, and provision of services. The link with day-to-day planning problems, how ever, remains a critical problem. The quality of the planning and decisionmaking process can be substantially improved when valid data are appropriately and efficiently handled. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the use of geographic information systems (GISs) in evaluating alternative solutions to Squatter problems. After the initial development of the GIS database, it has been used to produce various scenarios which take into account the socioeconomic characteristics of the Squatters, the constraints of the physical layout of existing Squatter settlements, availability of land, and site suitability of different kinds of development. Spatial modelling techniques are employed to examine alternative plans for the Squatter areas. These plans are evaluated by means of cost-benefit analysis incorporated into the GIS database. The authors also discuss the development of an interactive graphic user-interface to the GIS for Squatter planning and management. This is intended to facilitate user access to Squatter-planning scenarios. The interface provides flexibility in data selection and display, to allow physical planners and decision-makers to view and analyse the planning scenarios interactively before deciding on the final plan. In a concluding section some of the problems encountered are highlighted and factors which need to be considered if GIS is to be employed in this type of exercise are indicated.
