UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Professor Marie Huchzermeyer

Professor Marie Huchzermeyer
Position:Convenor: Mbe Housing
Qualifications:PhD (UCT), MCPUD (UCT), BL (UP)
Phone:27(11)-7177688
Cellphone:083 424 2457
Fax:011-7177649
Email:marie.huchzermeyer@wits.ac.za
Organisational Unit:School of Architecture and Planning
Room:223 John Moffat Building
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M arie Huchzermeyer joined the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University in 2001 following a research fellowship in London and her PhD from Sociology at UCT. Her role in the School of Architecture and Planning has been to convene an interdisciplinary housing masters, while also contributing to the Planning programme and supervising higher degrees.

Marie's research has covered housing and informal settlement policy across different contexts and from a historical, political and rights-based perspective. In 2004 she published her first book 'Unlawful Occupation: Informal Settlements and Urban Policy in South Africa and Brazil' (Africa World Press). This was followed recently by two further books: 'Tenement Cities: From 19th Century Berlin to 21st Century Nairobi' (Africa World Press) and 'Cities with 'Slums': from Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa' (UCT Press). She has also co-edited two books, guest edited several journal special issues and contributed to housing policy debates through academic and non-academic journals as well as the media. Her full publication list can be accessed by clicking on Download my CV above.

 

Research Interests

Informal settlement policy, with a particular concern about the post-millennial drive globally to eradicate informal settlements and the impacts of this on African cities. Private tenement investment as a poorly recognised form of affordable housing supply in cities such as Nairobi.

 

Publications

BOOKS
Huchzermeyer, M. (2011) Cities With 'Slums': From Slum Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa. Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town. http://uctpress.bookslive.co.za/blog/2011/10/19/marie-huchzermeyer-studies-informal-settlement-eradication-in-cities-with-slums/

Huchzermeyer, M. (2011) Tenement Cities: From 19th Century Berlin to 21st Century Nairobi. Africa World Press, Trenton JN. http://www.africaworldpressbooks.com/servlet/Detailno=877

Huchzermeyer, M., (2004). Unlawful Occupation: Informal Settlements and Urban Policy in South Africa and Brazil. Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, Trenton NJ.
http://www.africaworldpressbooks.com/servlet/Detail no=231

EDITED BOOKS
Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (eds.) (2006) Informal Settlements A Perpetual Challenge Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town.
http://www.jutaacademic.co.za/catalogue/itemdisplay.jsp?item_id=7705&search=true&nav_id=2009&tier_id=3723&qsHasChildren=true&author=Marie Huchzermeyer&category=-1&sformat=7899

Harrision, P., Huchzermeyer, M., Mayekiso, M. (eds.) (2003). Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society. UCT Press, Cape Town.
http://www.jutaacademic.co.za/catalogue/itemdisplay.jspitem_id=8108&nav_id=2009&tier_id=3723&qsHasChildren=true

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES
Huchzermeyer, M. (2010) Pounding the tip of the iceberg: the dominant politics of informal settlement eradication in South Africa. Politikon: The South African Journal of Political Science. 37(1), 129-148.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2009) Enumeration as a grassroots tool towards securing tenure in slums: insights from Kisumu, Kenya. Urban Forum, 20, 271-292.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2009) Urban housing: rediscovering tenements. Architecture South Africa, March/April, 44-48.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2009) The struggle for in situ upgrading of informal settlements: A reflection on cases in Gauteng. Development Southern Africa, 26(1), 59-74.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2008) Slum upgrading in Nairobi within the housing and basic services market: A housing rights concern. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 43(1), 19-39.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2007) Tenement city: The emergence of multi-storey districts through large scale private landlordism in Nairobi. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 31(4), 714-732.

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS
Huchzermeyer, M. (2010) Africa: Where and how to house urban citizens. In Jacquet, P., Pachauri, R. and Tubiana, L. (eds) Cities: Steering Towards Sustainability. pp.157-168. Teri Press, Delhi.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2008) The global governance response to informal settlements relieving or deepening marginalisation In Etienne Nel, E., Valenca, M and Leimgruber, W. (eds.). The Global Challenge and Marginalisation. Nova Science Publishers, New York.

Huchzermeyer, M. (2006) The new instrument for upgrading informal settlement in South Africa: contributions and constraints. In Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (eds.) Informal Settlements A Perpetual Challenge Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town.

Huchzermeyer, M., Karam, A., Stemela, I., Siliga, N. and Frazenburg, S. (2006) Policy, data and civil society: Reflections on South African challenges through an international review. In Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (eds.) Informal Settlements A Perpetual Challenge Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town.

Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (2006) The continuing challenge of informal settlements: An introduction. In Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (eds.) Informal Settlements A Perpetual Challenge Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town.

Omenya, A. and Huchzermeyer, M. (2006) Slum Upgrading in the complex context of political change: The case of Nairobi. In Huchzermeyer, M. and Karam, A. (eds.) Informal Settlements A Perpetual Challenge Juta/UCT Press, Cape Town.