State Restructuring And Urban Transformation In South Africa

Author : Giovanni Pasta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788860194008
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Economy and State South Africa's Post-apartheid Negotiation written by Giovanni Pasta and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on three materially poor, physically peripheral urban neighborhoods in the City of Tygerberg, this research uncovers the complex nature of state restructuring and urban transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Through a detailed analysis of state policies and projects for the delivery of low-income housing and crime prevention in these neighborhoods, this work demonstrates that in these processes, the states (its institutions, officials and projects) and urban residents and community organizations have negotiated the complexities of racial identities and the politics of place rooted in the geography of the post-apartheid city and its history of inequality configured in patterns of segregation."--P. 7.

Author : Sophie Oldfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Restructuring and Urban Transformation in South Africa written by Sophie Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Udesh Pillay
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921567
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Delivery written by Udesh Pillay and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Delivery: Urban Policy in South Africa tells the story of urban policy and its formulation in South Africa. As such, it provides an important resource for present and future urban policy processes. In a series of essays written by leading academics and practitioners, Democracy and Delivery documents and assesses the formulation, evolution and implementation of urban policy in South Africa during the first ten years of democracy. The contributors describe the creation of democratic local governments from the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising and the intense township struggles of the 1980s, the formulation of 'developmental' planning and financial frameworks, and the delivery of housing and services by the new democratic order. They examine the policy formulation processes and what underlay these, debate the role of research and the influence of international development agencies, and assess successes and failures in policy implementation. Looking to the future, the contributors make suggestions based on experience with implementation and changing political priorities. Academics, students, policy-makers and government officials, as well as an informed public, will find this book an enlightening read.

Author : Christoph Haferburg
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825866990
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Restructurings of Post-apartheid Cape Town written by Christoph Haferburg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will tomorrow's Cape Town look like? This volume reflects a variety of aspects of urban development and restructuring efforts in Cape Town in the last years. A focus lies on the question if the "apartheid city" is reproducing itself. This leads to an evaluation whether current policies really counter societal imbalances. The essays presented here illuminate possible pathways towards the urban futures unfolding in a South African city in transition.

Author : Anthony Lemon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030730735
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid written by Anthony Lemon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jo Beall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113654951X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uniting a Divided City written by Jo Beall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come. Decision-makers in cities worldwide have attempted to balance harsh fiscal and administrative realities with growing demands for political, economic and social justice. This book investigates pragmatic approaches to urban economic development, service delivery, spatial restructuring, environmental sustainability and institutional reform in Johannesburg. It explores the conditions and processes that are determining the city's transformation into a cosmopolitan metropole and magnet for the continent.

Author : Rob Pattman
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928480063
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Transformation in Research and Teaching at South African Universities written by Rob Pattman and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is transformation in contemporary South African higher education? How can it be facilitated through research and pedagogic practices? These questions are addressed in this edited collection by established academics and emerging research students from nine South African universities. The chapters give us access to students? worlds: how they construct, experience and navigate their complex spheres, on and off campus. By engaging with students as knowledge producers, we transform popular ways of thinking about race, gender, class, sexuality, disability and age as singular and natural markers of difference and diversity.ÿ Rather than taking diversity as fixed and rooted in nature, we explore how diversity is imagined and lived in particular contexts on and off campus.

Author : Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136277
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Futures written by Doctor Edgar Pieterse and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented. This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.

Author : Jo Beall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uniting a Divided City written by Jo Beall and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come. Decision-makers in cities worldwide have attempted to balance harsh fiscal and administrative realities with growing demands for political, economic and social justice. This book investigates pragmatic approaches to urban economic development, service delivery, spatial restructuring, environmental sustainability and institutional reform in Johannesburg. It explores the conditions and processes that are determining the city's transformation into a cosmopolitan metropole and magnet for the continent.

Author : Philip Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134238177
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning and Transformation written by Philip Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience. In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by apartheid. This book covers the experience of the planning community, the extent to which their aims were achieved, and the hindering factors. Although some of the factors affecting planning have been context-specific, the nature of South Africa’s transition and its relationship to global dynamics have meant that many of the issues confronting planners in other parts of the world are echoed here. Issues of governance, integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and values are significant, and the particular nature of the South African experience lends new insights to thinking on these questions, exploring the possibilities of achievement in the planning field.