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The Apartheid City and Beyond - Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (Paperback, New)
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The Apartheid City and Beyond - Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (Paperback, New)
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Apartheid, as legislated racial separation, brought dramatic change
to the South African urban scene. Race "group areas" remodelled
South African cities, while the creation of "homelands,"
mini-states, and the "pass laws" controlling population migration
constrained the process of urbanization itself.
In the mid 1980s, the old system was replaced by a new policy of
"orderly urbanization," intended to accelerate the process of
industrialization and cultural change by relaxing the constraints
on urbanization imposed by state planning. The result was hardly an
improvement: political instability rose, and a quarter of the black
population were being housed in shanty towns. Today, negotiations
between the nationalist government and the African National
Congress are working to dissolve the old apartheid system. Yet the
end of apartheid will only be the beginning of the creation of a
new society.
"The Apartheid City and Beyond" contains a series of original
contributions on apartheid as it affected housing, community life,
settlement forms, and the servicing of the cities. Ranging from
broad overviews of particular issues to local case studies, the
contributors turn away from a past that is best forgotten,
explaining how the cities of South Africa came to be as they are:
the locus of people's present lives and a major constraint on urban
forms.
Looking ahead to the post-apartheid city, they show that if the
cities of South Africa are to serve the people as a whole, the
accelerating process of urbanization must be brought under control
and harnessed to a new purpose.
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