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    Enumeration report : Hlazo village informal settlement pocket
    (City of Cape Town, 2017) City of Cape Town
    Hlazo village is an informal settlement located in Gugulethu. The settlement consists of 32 dwellings that are located on two 500sqm properties, namely erven 88 and 57 on 60 Amplankeni Crescent. The current land use designation in the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning By-Law is General Business 4. The surrounding land uses are mostly Single Residential A number of backyard shacks are built on most of the residential properties. The settlement is located 19km south east of the Cape Town CBD. The Western Cape Government Department of Human Settlements appointed the Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC), through a competitive tender process, to conduct an in-depth enumeration of Hlazo Village, which forms part of the Airport Informal Settlement Precinct consisting of ten (10) informal settlements, namely, Barcelona, Gxagxa, Lusaka, Kanana, Vukuzenzele, Europe, Thabo Mbeki, KTC, Tsunami IDA/TRA, and Hlazo Village. Kosovo was also enumerated as a priority project in the souther corridor. CORC works in partnership with the Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor and the Informal Settlement Network, who mobilised, trained and provided on-going support to Hlazo Village community members to act as enumerators in this study.
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    Exploring partnership with local government : a people’s led approach to informal settlement upgrading
    (Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC), 2018) Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC)
    This publication draws from the rich and varied experiences in upgrading of the South African SDI Alliance, in particular the Informal Settlement Network (ISN) and Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor (FEDUP). It describes the community-led practices for upgrading and the tools that support these, especially mobilising through savings and data collection. It describes how these examples helped change national government policies towards commitments to community-led upgrading. It also describes a decade of partnerships with local governments that sought to greatly increase the scale of upgrading and reflects on where this worked well – and less well. Many positive commitments have been made by city governments (and ministers within national governments). But it has proved challenging to put them into practice on the ground within the formal processes of local government with its sectoral rivalries, bureaucratic inertia and range of (often inappropriate) rules and regulations.
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    Slums and informal settlements : an evidence-based approach to sustainable upgrading and development
    (Space Syntax, 2010) Space Syntax
    Slums are a physical and spatial manifestation of urban poverty and intra-city inequality. However, slums do not accommodate all the urban poor, nor are all slum dwellers always poor. Approaches to improvement typically follow insitu upgrading or forced eviction and redevelopment. Both approaches focus on short-term solutions which fail to address the core spatial problems of these areas. Space Syntax occupies a middle ground by concentrating vital spatial intervention in the key areas which deliver long term benefits. Space Syntax provides a unique, evidence-based, and industry-leading approach to the planning and design of buildings and urban areas. Combining technology, ability, and extensive global experience.