Confronting Fragmentation
Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising
Published on 9. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-919713-73-1 (ISBN)
Description
The fragmentation of South Africa's cities persists despite the ending of apartheid. New forms of segregation are emerging in the context of globalisation and a largely neo-liberal policy environment. This poses an enormous challenge for policy-making, planning, and community activism. Although there has been an improvement in service infrastructure in certain parts of South African cities since 1994, the major structural changes required to alter the trajectory of urban change have not yet happened. This book provides a provocative, careful, analytical perspective on the problems of fragmentation, with particular reference to the provision of urban shelter. The cross-national nature of the author team reflects the fact that many of the issues facing South African cities are being experienced globally. This is a fascinating book. The text is both theoretical and practical. It will be of great value to policy-makers, planners, community leaders, and students in the field of development and the built environment.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Kenwyn
South Africa
Publishing group
Juta & Company Ltd
Illustrations
tables
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 168 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-919713-73-1 (9781919713731)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The challenge of urban fragmentation: Fragmentation and globalisation as the new Meta-Narrative (Philip Harrison): Urban fragmentation, inequality and social justice (David M. Smith), the degeneration of urban policy after apartheid (Patrick Bond), South Africa's enduring urban crisis: The local state and the urban social movement with particular reference to Johannesburg (Mzwanele Mayekiso), HIV/Aids and urban disintegration in Johannesburg (Richard Tomlinson), social justice, social integration and the compact city - lessons from the inner city of Johannesburg (Mike Oelofse). Urban planning responses: Housing; integrated urban development and the compact city debate (Alison Todes); unravelling the different meanings of integration - the urban development framework of the South African government (Edgar Pieterse); planning for integration - the case of metropolitan Cape Town (Vanessa Watson); housing and urban passenger transport policy and planning in South African cities - a problematic relationship? (Roger Behrens and Peter Wilkinson); a time and a space for African identities in planning in South Africa? (Mark Oranje); alternative urban planning and management in Brazil - instructive examples for other countries in the South? (Marcelo Lopes de Souza).