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Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society,9781919713731
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Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society


Edition: 1st
Author(s): Harrison, Philip
ISBN10:  1919713735
ISBN13:  9781919713731
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  4/1/2004
Publisher(s): Paul & Co Pub Consortium

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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
Foreword xii
Contributors xv
INTRODUCTION Confronting Fragmentation 1(12)
Part A The Challenge of Urban Fragmentation
CHAPTER 1 Fragmentation and Globalisation as the New Meta-Narrative
13(13)
Philip Harrison
Globalisation: The new meta-narrative
13(2)
Urban fragmentation
15(3)
Responses to fragmentation
18(4)
In the final event, does fragmentation really matter?
22(1)
References
23(3)
CHAPTER 2 Urban Fragmentation, Inequality and Social Justice: Ethical Perspectives
26(14)
David M. Smith
Introduction
26(2)
The apartheid city and beyond
28(3)
Inequality in the United States city
31(3)
The multicultural city
34(3)
Conclusion
37(1)
Acknowledgements
38(1)
References
38(2)
CHAPTER 3 The Degeneration of Urban Policy after Apartheid
40(17)
Patrick Bond
Introduction
40(4)
The Local Government White Paper
44(2)
The Housing White Paper
46(3)
The Urban Development Strategy
49(4)
Conclusion: Towards cities of solidarity
53(1)
References
54(3)
CHAPTER 4 South Africa's Enduring Urban Crisis: The Local State and the Urban Social Movement with Particular Reference to Johannesburg
57(19)
Mzwanele Mayekiso
Introduction
57(3)
The civic movement in crisis
60(4)
Social movements and the new economic regime
64(2)
Democracy deferred and bureaucratising the civics
66(2)
Uneven development within the post-apartheid city
68(3)
The development dilemma within the civic movement, and between the civic movement and local government
71(3)
Conclusion
74(1)
References
74(2)
CHAPTER 5 HIV/Aids and Urban Disintegration in Johannesburg
76(12)
Richard Tomlinson
Introduction
76(1)
Demographic projections for Johannesburg in the light of HIV/Aids
76(4)
Economic trends
80(1)
Economic and urban strategies and worsening poverty
81(4)
Urban disintegration
85(1)
Conclusion
86(1)
References
86(2)
CHAPTER 6 Social Justice, Social Integration and the Compact City: Lessons from the Inner City of Johannesburg
88(21)
Mike Oelofse
Introduction
88(1)
Social justice in the compact city
89(2)
Integrative trends in South African cities
91(1)
Racial integration and racial tipping in the inner city of Johannesburg
92(1)
Racial tension: Landlords versus tenants
93(1)
Integration of income groups
94(2)
Urban regeneration and housing affordability
96(2)
Appropriate scale
98(2)
Opportunities for the marginalised
100(1)
Rural-urban and foreign migrants
101(2)
Conclusion
103(1)
References
104(5)
Part B Urban Planning Responses
CHAPTER 7 Housing, Integrated Urban Development and the Compact City Debate
109(13)
Alison Todes
Introduction: The compact city debate in South Africa
109(2)
Urban compaction: A socially desirable alternative?
111(2)
The feasibility of urban compaction: A Durban case study
113(5)
Conclusion: Is urban compaction still important?
118(1)
Acknowledgements
119(1)
References
119(3)
CHAPTER 8 Unravelling the Different Meanings of Integration: The Urban Development Framework of the South African Government
122(18)
Edgar Pieterse
Introduction
122(1)
Central features of the Urban Development Framework
123(2)
Four connotations of integration in the Urban Development Framework
125(11)
Conclusion
136(1)
Acknowledgements
137(1)
References
137(3)
CHAPTER 9 Planning for Integration: The Case of Metropolitan Cape Town
140(14)
Vanessa Watson
Introduction
140(1)
Spatial planning in Cape Town and the issue of functional integration
141(8)
Integration, competing story-lines and power
149(3)
Conclusion
152(1)
References
152(2)
CHAPTER 10 Housing and Urban Passenger Transport Policy and Planning in South African Cities: A Problematic Relationship?
154(21)
Roger Behrens and Peter Wilkinson
Introduction
154(1)
The continued peripheralisation of low-income housing in post-apartheid South Africa
155(7)
The new transport policy agenda and the emerging urban transport planning framework
162(5)
A convergent intersection of integrated development planning and integrated transport planning?
167(4)
Conclusion: Tackling the housing-transport nexus
171(1)
References
172(3)
CHAPTER 11 A Time and a Space for African Identities in Planning in South Africa?
175(15)
Mark Oranje
Introduction
175(1)
Some African identities
176(3)
A time for African identities in the post-1994 South African planning system?
179(3)
Seeking explanations for the omissions'
182(3)
A space for some African identities?
185(1)
Conclusion
186(1)
References
186(4)
CHAPTER 12 Alternative Urban Planning and Management in Brazil: Instructive Examples for Other Countries in the South?
190(21)
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Introduction
190(1)
Purposes and roots of 'alternative urban planning' in Brazil
191(4)
'Participatory budgeting': The Brazilian experience of citizen participation in resource allocation
195(3)
'Some additional remarks about the relevance of the 'urban reform' instruments and 'participatory budgeting' to socio-spatial development
198(3)
Conclusion: Instructive examples for other countries in the South?
201(5)
Acknowledgements
206(1)
References
206(5)
Part C The Role of Housing
CHAPTER 13 Addressing Segregation Through Housing Policy and Finance
211(17)
Marie Huchzermeyer
Introduction
211(2)
Causes of housing segregation and its perpetuation
213(3)
Policy responses: Redressing segregation of low-income housing
216(8)
Conclusion
224(1)
References
224(4)
CHAPTER 14 Illegal Housing: Law, Property Rights and Urban Space
228(16)
Edesio Fernandes
Introduction
228(2)
Law in the context of critical urban research
230(6)
Law, illegality and access to land and housing
236(1)
The question of property rights
237(5)
Conclusion
242(1)
References
242(2)
CHAPTER 15 An Interpretation of Sustainable Development and Urban Sustainability in Low-Cost Housing and Settlements in South Africa
244(19)
Daniel K. Irurah and Brian Boshoff
Introduction: Sustainable development and sustainable urban form
244(2)
Sustainable cities and human settlements
246(2)
Urban sustainability and urban form
248(2)
Sustainable low-cost housing, urban sustainability and the sustainable development debate in South Africa
250(2)
Low-cost housing in the context of the building construction sector
252(1)
Sustainable housing and settlement initiatives: Overview of case studies
253(3)
Sustainable housing and settlement: Policy initiatives
256(4)
Conclusion
260(1)
References
261(2)
CHAPTER 16 The Integrated Delivery of Housing: A Local Government Perspective from Durban
263(15)
Sarah Charlton
Introduction
263(2)
Concepts of integrated development
265(1)
The housing context of Durban 1997-2001
266(1)
The institutional environment
266(3)
The mandate of Metro Housing
269(1)
Spatial integration
269(2)
Internal integration
271(1)
An integrated process of delivery
272(1)
An integral response to needs
273(2)
Conclusion
275(1)
References
276(2)
CHAPTER 17 Self-Managed Housing Construction: The Experience of Sao Paulo
278
Raquel Rolnik and Renato Cymbalista
Introduction
278(1)
The economic context of housing in Brazil
279(1)
The politicisation of the periphery and the urban social movements in São Paulo
280(1)
The concept of mutirao and self-management
281(2)
The Case of Apuana
283(8)
Conclusion: An assessment of the mutirao process
291(2)
Acknowledgements
293(1)
References
293

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