Urbanization, Land Administration, and Good-Enough Governance

The growth of cities, through the process of urbanization, delivers both positive and negative outcomes. Cities are engines for economic and technological transformation; however, they are also the places where slums, informal sectors, inefficient urban services, and conflict over land resources manifest (UN-Habitat 2012). The duality of outcomes draws attention to improving urban land governance (Dobson et al. 2014).