In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South
Africa, planners were convinced that 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 explores the experience of planning in South
Africa during the ten years from 1994, with the aim of contributing
to key international debates in planning theory. The authors argue
that, because of the highly fluid nature of South African society
during these last ten years, this country provides a useful
'laboratory' in which to explore the possibilities of achievement
in the planning field. Thus while many of the factors which have
affected 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 which confront planners in other
parts of the world are echoed here as well. Issues of governance,
integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and
values are as significant here as they are elsewhere, and the
particular nature of the South African experience lends new
insights to thinking on these questions.
The book is subdivided into sections which reflect the main themes
in international planning debates. After Part A, which sets the
scene in terms of the overall objectives of the book and the
changing nature of planning under apartheid and in the
post-apartheid era, the sections deal with:
Planning and governance, including planning at the local, regional,
national and transnational scales;
Discourses of planning, including those of spatial frameworks,
integration and transformation, planning'srelationship to the
market, and discourses related to environment and
sustainability;
Planning and society, including professionalism, education,
planning values, its response to diversity and informality, and to
the big social issues of AIDS, poverty and crime
A concluding section considers the power of planning in the South
African context and the limits to its power.
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