Full Description
This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.
The TIP approach shows that addressing societal problems is not a function of a technical solution within a government department but one that requires partnership with multiple stakeholders. The book argues that it is essential to understand and embrace innovation policy that is transformative and responds to the social and environmental needs at local, provincial and national levels. It demonstrates that innovation policy should focus on transforming the socio-technical systems that demand embracing notions such as experimental delivery and learning, directionality and inclusivity. Chapters explore the ability of the state to transform its organisational processes and capacity to improve and align its planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation systems to high levels of efficiency and sustainability targets.
Bringing together various theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation in the context of sustainable human settlement, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Housing, Human Settlements, Architecture, Public Policy, Development Studies, Civil Engineering, Political Science and Public Administration.
Contents
1 Transformative Innovations and Systems Thinking in Sustainable Human Settlements
ANDREW EMMANUEL OKEM , SITHEMBISO LINDELIHLE MYENI AND TSHEPANG MOSIEA
2 Fostering Sustainable Integrated Human Settlements through a Systems Thinking Approach
NDWAKHULU STEPHEN TSHISHONGA AND NOLUTHANDO SHIRLEY MATSILIZA
3 State Capacity and Sustainable Human Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring Public Servants' Autonomy for Increased Innovation
MIRIAM HOFISI AND JEAN-MARC LUKAMBA MUHIYA TSHOMBE
4 Land Rights, Land Ownership, Land Invasions, Homelessness and Informal Settlements: The Law as an Enabler or Impediment to Human Settlement
OLIVER MTAPURI AND SITHEMBISO LINDELIHLE MYENI
5 State-Funded Housing and Social Sustainability Indicators: The Case of Hlalani, South Africa
SIPHO NKAMBULE AND KOYI MCHUNU
6 A Transition Plan for Innovation Uptake in Sustainable Human Settlements in South Africa
TSHEPANG MOSIEA AND PRECIOUS LUKHELE
7 Collaborative Governance as a Strategy to Improve Housing Delivery in the Human Settlements Sector: A Case of Conurbia, Durban
BONGEKILE YVONNE CHARLOTTE MVUYANA AND THOKOZANI IAN NZIMAKWE
8 Innovations through Insurgent Citizenship for Integrated Human Settlements in South Africa: A Popular Space
NDWANKULU STEPHEN TSHISHONGA, EVE MAFEMA AND LUCKY MDLETSHE
9 Unpacking the Implementation of Decentralisation Reforms in Post-Apartheid Housing Development in South Africa
SITHEMBISO LINDELIHLE MYENI
10 Exploring Public-Private Partnership in Alternative Housing Technologies: A Case Study of Eric Molobi Housing Innovation Hub
MERON A OKBANDRIAS
11 Exploring the Utility of Innovative Building Technologies in the Densification of Urban Areas: A Case of Cornubia Housing Project in Durban, South Africa
SANELE B. MBAMBO
12 Using Foucault to Explore Technology Diffusion: A Case Study of the Exalon QMS in Managing Human Settlement Projects in KwaZulu-Natal
SITHEMBISO LINDELIHLE MYENI, TSHEPANG MOSIEA AND ANDREW EMMANUEL OKEM
13 Back to First Principles: Ideas for Supporting Incrementalism in Low-Income Housing in South Africa
PAULINE ADEBAYO AND CATHERINE NDINDA
14 Residential Satisfaction with Subsidised Housing in South Africa: Implications for Innovative Transformative Policies in Human Settlements
CATHERINE NDINDA AND PAULINE ADEBAYO
15 Using Geographic Information System as a Tool for Governing and Monitoring the Upgrading of Informal Settlements in Durban, South Africa
BAHLE MAZEKA AND VINCENT MYENI
16 Synchronised Traditional Settlements Land Management Processes through a Digital Platform
SITHEMBISO LINDELIHLE MYENI AND MBONGENI HLONGWA
