{"product_id":"legal-empowerment-of-the-poor-louisa-vogiazides-9789171067203","title":"'legal Empowerment of the Poor' Versus 'right to the City': Implications for Access to Housing in Urban Africa","description":"The challenge of urban deprivation and exclusion in the urban South has given rise to varied and shifting policies and ideas. Two sets of ideas have gained great currency in recent years in international policy and academic circles. The Legal Empowerment of the Poor approach, rooted in neoliberal thinking, focuses on the legal rights of the urban poor as the means to secure access to basic services and needs. The Right to the City perspective, on the other hand, stresses issues of citizenship and the appropriation and uses of urban space. This Policy Dialogue analyses the different ideological and normative foundations of the two perspectives and discusses how they lead to different policy formulations. It then takes a closer look at how the two perspectives find expression in contemporary discussions on and approaches to access to housing in urban Africa. To this end, it compares what each approach identifies as the source of the problem and recommends as the policy solution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louisa Vogiazides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9171067205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789171067203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nordic Africa Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.09d","brand":"Louisa Vogiazides","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44213285912831,"sku":"9789171067203","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9568c23-57e0-4e0b-bf6e-0ff82df81cdf.jpg?v=1692113034","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/legal-empowerment-of-the-poor-louisa-vogiazides-9789171067203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}