They believe that illegal land invasions should not be rewarded and they lack the skills and capabilities to work with disaffected communities on joint problem-solving. This requires careful analysis of the interactions between people, places and economic activities. There is plenty of creative learning happening for the organisers of this event and we can’t wait to welcome participants to learn alongside us. Accessible policy-relevant research and expert commentaries on unemployment, income distribution and inclusive growth in South Africa. However, eThekwini Municipality’s progressive incremental approach to providing services to informal settlements means that the community has access to communal ablution blocks, communal tap points and formal electricity in one section of the settlement. Tissington, K., Munshi, N., Mirugi-Mukundi, G. & Durojaye, E. (2013) ‘Jumping the Queue’, Waiting Lists and other Myths: Perceptions and Practice around Housing Demand and Allocation in South Africa. These areas present the country with some its biggest dilemmas. In South Africa, these settlements are found in a variety of areas and are home to a large percentage of the country’s impoverished population. Perform shack surveys in several informal settlements in South Africa (SA) to enhance current stochastic topological data on informal settlement composition (both physical and The income profile of shack dwellers actually is closer to that of workers who live in rural areas (where 84% earn less than R6 000 per month). Another objective would be to identify which settlements in which cities have the greatest positive effect – and why. In the absence of a clear policy, there are all sorts of piecemeal responses, ranging from small initiatives to upgrade these areas and disaster relief schemes, to forced evictions.[1]. Radical Cities, a new book by Justin McGuirk, deals with favellas and barriadas in South America, but it is highly relevant to South Africa and other countries in the developing world. Informal settlements, or squatter camps, if you like, might be a democratic solution that authorities should investigate to find solutions for urban planning. We have been working on the design of dwellings for the experiment and have a combination of steel and cardboard dwellings. Residents get second-class schools, health care and infrastructure, which dampen the prospects of future generations. It is informal as per Karam and Huchzermeyer’s definition of informal settlements being those settlements that were not planned by nor have formal permission to exist from government. informal settlement through practical learning and experimentation. Further research and better data are required to track households over time in order to analyse the extent of social mobility and whether migrants from rural areas improve their economic status after moving to informal urban settlements. RA’EESA PATHER explains. Produce a generic risk-mapping framework and best practice resilience-based technical guideline for improving for informal settlements, and apply this to the informal settlements of the Thus there is little understanding of whether the sacrifices that people make by living in unsanitary and insecure urban conditions pay off by providing access to better economic opportunities. Overcrowding of informal settlements is due to lack of proper planning by the local government (choose local area). The big gap between rural and urban areas indicates a strong incentive for migration to urban areas. Basic fire safety such as adequate spacing between homes may be implemented but innovative fire reduction design is usually not considered. An estimated 25% of the world’s urban population live in informal settlements, with 213 million informal settlement residents added to the global population since 1990 (UN-Habitat, 2013b: 126–8). Perform lab and field experiments on real scale dwellings and model settlements to understand and quantify key fire spread parameters required for simulation e.g. In this way the informal settlement on the periphery is like a “city within the city”, with its own informal economy. Marking rubric Topic Introduction Questionnaire(date, time, who to interview Understanding Interpretation of data General findings CONCLUSION Recommendation(s) Marks 10 10 20 10 20 20 10 TOTAL: 100 It was occupied in 1997 by some residents from Harare, a suburb of Khayelitsha. Informal Settlements. informal settlements, one based on enumeration area (Informal Settlement EA) and the other based on the type of dwelling (shack not in backyard).