Beschreibung:
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.
This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.
1. The apartheid city – Anthony Lemon.- 2. Cape Town: living closer, yet, somehow further apart – Gustav Visser & Anele Horn.- 3. Johannesburg three decades after the end of the Group Areas Act: repetitions and disruptions of spatial patterns - Richard Ballard, Christian Hamann, Thembani Mkhize.- 4. Durban: Betraying the struggle for a democratic city? – Brij Maharaj.- 5. Pretoria-Tshwane: Past, Present and Future - Andre Horn.- From East London to Buffalo City Metropole – Cecil Seethal, Etienne Nel & John Bwalya.- 7. Bloemfontein-Mangaung – Lochner Marais.- 8. Pietermaritzburg – Adrian Nel, Marc Epprecht & Rob Haswell.- 9. Polokwane: South Africa’s most integrated city? – Ronnie Donaldson.- 10. From Grahamstown to Makhanda: Urban frontiers and challenges in a post-apartheid city – Phillipa Irvine.- 11. Mthatha (Umtata): From tribal buffer, to homeland capital, to regional integration – Manfred Spocter & Ronnie Donaldson.- 12. Mahikeng: one city but worlds apart – Verna Nel & James Drummond.- 13. Kimberley: The diamond city has lost its sparkle – Manfred Spocter.- 14. Alice: change in a small university town - John Ntema.
