The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
by Smith,David M.; Smith,David M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1992-04-22
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | |
| List of tables | |
| List of contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Background | p. 11 |
| Dispossession, exploitation and struggle: an historical overview of South African urbanization | p. 13 |
| Local and regional government: from rigidity to crisis to flux | p. 25 |
| Housing and community under apartheid | p. 37 |
| The apartheid state and Black housing struggles | p. 39 |
| State intervention in housing provision in the 1980s | p. 53 |
| Class struggle over the built environment in Johannesburg's coloured areas | p. 65 |
| The 'spatial impress' of the central and local states: the Group Areas Act in Durban | p. 74 |
| The destruction of Clairwood: a case study on the transformation of communal living space | p. 87 |
| Urban (mis)management? A case study of the effects of orderly urbanization on Duncan Uillage | p. 99 |
| Informal settlement | p. 111 |
| Winterveld: an urban interface settlement on the Pretoria metropolitan fringe | p. 113 |
| Khayelitsha: new settlement forms in the Cape Peninsula | p. 125 |
| The road to 'Egoli': urbanization histories from a Johannesburg squatter settlement | p. 136 |
| Informal settlement: theory versus practice in KwaZulu/Natal | p. 147 |
| Servicing the cities | p. 159 |
| The absorptive capacity of the informal sector in the South African city | p. 161 |
| Travelling under apartheid | p. 172 |
| Changing state policy and the Black taxi industry in Soweto | p. 182 |
| The Regional Services Council debacle in Durban | p. 193 |
| Tourism and development needs in the Durban region | p. 205 |
| Urbanization and health: evidence from Cape Town | p. 216 |
| Towards a post-apartheid city | p. 229 |
| The post-apartheid city: hopes, possibilities, and harsh realities | p. 231 |
| Urbanization and the South African city: a manifesto for change | p. 243 |
| Post-apartheid housing policy | p. 255 |
| Contradictions in the transition from urban apartheid: barriers to gentrification in Johannesburg | p. 266 |
| 'Turning grey': how Westville was won | p. 279 |
| Power, space and the city: historical reflections on apartheid and post-apartheid urban orders | p. 292 |
| Lessons from the Harare, Zimbabwe, experience | p. 303 |
| Conclusion | p. 314 |
| Index | p. 318 |
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