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The Apartheid City and Beyond - Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (Hardcover)
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The Apartheid City and Beyond - Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (Hardcover)
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A study of apartheid and the changes which have taken place in
South Africa since 1981. The author argues that vested interests
and ideologies existing behind the pattern of property ownership
survive the abolition of apartheid laws and that beyond race, class
and ethnicity continue to divide urban life. Apartheid as
legislated racial separation substantially changed the South
African urban scene. Race "group areas" remodelled the cities,
while the creation of "homelands" mini-states and the "pass laws"
controlling population migration constrained urbanization itself.
In the mid-1980s the old system - having proved economically
inefficient and politically divisive - was replaced by a new policy
of "orderly urbanization". This sought to accelerate
industrialization and cultural change by relaxing the constraints
on urbanization imposed by state planning. The result was further
political instability and quarter of the black (or African)
population housed in shanty towns. Negotiations between the
Nationalist government and the African National Congress are
working towards the end of the old apartheid system. Yet the
negation of apartheid is only the beginning of the creation of a
new
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