Time is money, and it crucial to accelerate road construction improve the accessibility connectivity of infrastructure. Prolonged periods project implementation lead delays cost overruns, further could destabilize industry, causing an economic slowdown. This study explores causes delay in giving site possession, a topic that has received little explicit attention. The authors qualitatively iden...

In São Paolo’s ancient center, squats provide protective spaces to thousands of residents who cannot or do not want access the formal and highly gentrified housing market. At same time, these formerly abandoned buildings are also a site political struggle claim right decent communal living. This paper traces motives aspirations different types squatters, such as activists, internal internationa...

The focus of this paper is the "Indian Market", a famous tourist landmark in Durban. While local and foreign tourists have flocked in large numbers to the Market for most of this century, few realise that the Market has historically been an arena of struggle between Indians and whites concerned about public health in Durban, between Indians and the local state, and amongst Indians themselves. T...

For Mozambicans, border-crossing is neither new nor liberating. Many current analyses of refugees, labor migrants, smuggles, and other “transnational subjects” emphasize their range of options, arguing that they are less and less constrained by porous, poilitically “soft” international borders. This paper argues that, for at least a segment, the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border is hard and constraini...

This paper explores the long-standing relationship in Rome between socio-cultural diversity and temporary nature of low-income housing solutions. I argue that this phenomenon began long before recent neoliberal trends global post-2008 crisis, instead emerged from gradual development a moral racialized understanding as ‘social award’. has created specific social category known ‘housing otherness...

Abstract Squatting in Sweden peaked the 1980s. Stockholm and Gothenburg were epicenters, among other smaller towns throughout country. Researchers identified punk music, influences from abroad, anarchist ideas emergence of urban social movements as central to increase squatting during this decade. Only a fragmented picture events has been presented until now, however, often at city level limite...