South African Urban Change Three Decades After Apartheid

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This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography, social as well as economic structure and their differential spatial expression across a range of urban sites in South Africa. The evidence presented in this book points to a very complex set of narratives in urban South Africa and one that cannot be reduced to a singular statement so the conclusions of the various investigations are in many ways open. As urban apartheid represented one clear outcome, its post-apartheid urban legacies varies greatly from city to city. As such this book is a great resource to students and academics focused on urban change in South African cities since the demise of apartheid, and scholars of urban policy-making in South Africa and Southern urbanists generally.

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Anthony Lemon

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Post-apartheid in South African cities Residential Desegregation in South Africa South African urban spatial planning frameworks Post-apartheid government housing programmes Neoliberal policies influencing transition in South Africa Corruption in South African city management Rapid urbanisation in South African cities Socio-spatial demands in South African cities Homeland cities as forced removal reservoirs for displaced Studentification of suburbs in South African cities Desegregation of suburbs in South African cities Urban strategies for change in South African cities Mixed-income residential settlements Deterioration of former Bantustans Homes Apart: South Africa’s Segregated Cities

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