Download or read book Possible Directions that South Africa Needs to Follow Regarding Urban Development in View of the Experiences in Chile and the Urban Development Strategy of the South African Government written by Lenka Tucek and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (School of Social Sciences and Humanities), course: Course: Urban Anthropology (SA 402), 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Apartheid has been overthrown, a democratic government has been elected and South Africa is openeing itself to the world. But for the administration, the problems have grown more urgent, and the country now faces more than the already tragic heritage of apartheid. Due to decades of apartheid mismanagement urban areas are extremely inequitable and inefficient. They are the productive centres of the economy, but the majority of the urban residents live in very bad conditions and far away from their places of work. The quality of life of the South African people has to be improved massively, through creating jobs and deracialising the cities. Estimates of the present urban population in South Africa vary between 19.6 million and 26 million. By 2020, 75 per cent of the population will live and work in the cities and towns.1 The rate of urban population growth will be higher than for the population growth as a whole. Whereas in 1985 there were 20.7 million of the total South African population, resident in and on the edges of urban areas, by 2020 that will have increased to 43.7 million. 2 In the future, the urban centres, especially the metropolitan areas will function to an even greater degree than today as the social, economic and demographic heart of the country. "It is apparent that African urbanisation levels certainly increase markedly over the next decade, and it is important that all decision makers involved in forward planning take account of this phenomenon."3 In this assignment I will give an insight to the Urban Development Strategy of the Government of National Unity (GNU) (Chapter 2). Special attention will be given to the housing issue in
Download or read book New Cities new Economies written by Tshilidzi Ratshitanga and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research is predicated upon a spatial policy concern regarding the current post-apartheid urban experiences in South Africa. Based on what has been analyzed and critiqued thus far in terms of this situation, the policy concern has to do with the need to drastically redirect South Africa’s patterns of urban development in ways that can foster integrated and sustainable socio-economic development. ☐ This is a qualitative research study. The central questions that have been posed in this regard are: What are the current patterns of urban development in South Africa? How did they come about and what sustains them? What are the impediments in the current policies and implementation plans, which make urban development patterns in South Africa unable to deliver equitable and inclusive socio-economic outcomes that are consistent with the creation of a just society? And what are the core principles and features of a new policy framework that can guide a more equitable, just and sustainable pattern of urban development in South Africa? How does the development of new cities in South Africa anchor such a new policy framework? ☐ This has paved the way for the crafting of a policy framework, anchored on the creation of new cities, which is aimed at redirecting patterns of urban development in South Africa. The New Cities – New Economies thesis is a proposition that is aimed at fueling the long overdue economic growth and transformation of the South African society. It is the gestation of an economic revolution. It is indeed a Grand Plan, which will not only serve South Africa but has potential to reverberate across the entire African continent. This Grand Plan is the promise of the South Africa we yearn for, the Africa we want. ☐ New cities herald new economies, new economies yield jobs and empowerment and therefore destroy both poverty and apartheid economic legacy. The new cities should have a symbiotic relationship with the economy. As new cities herald new economies; new economies will anchor and sustain new cities. These are egalitarian cities. Egalitarian cities are equitable cities that promote cohabitation, where people share in the wealth of their nations.
Download or read book Urban Development written by Anna Ihle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 75Prozent, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (School of Governmental and Social Science), course: Seminar: Urban Anthropology, language: English, abstract: [...] The paper describes the situation in which the country was after several decades of Apartheid policy. It focuses especially on the problematic issue of housing. The introduction outlines the Urban Development Strategy with its goals and visions as well as its direct criticism. Subsequent to that, the discussion emphasizes the two main issues urban development planning is confronted with namely housing and infrastructure. After that there follows a short chapter on the problematic situation of implementing theory. The final part of the discussion not only concludes and summarises the main aspects, but presents a possible outlook for future urban development in the South African context.
Download or read book Policy Overview written by Private Sector Council on Urbanisation (South Africa) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Download or read book Urban Development Planning written by Richard Tomlinson and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of local economic-development planning. The book suggests how it may be applied to South Africa. Development planning reflects many of the recommendations in the African National Congress Reconstruction and Development Programme.
Download or read book Urbanisation written by Derik Gelderblom and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume 1 of this two-volume publication, the authors review the international literature on urbanisation.
Download or read book Urban Planning for City Leaders written by Pablo Vaggione and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards an Urban Research Agenda for South Africa written by S. F. Coetzee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa written by David W. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Building Better Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrating Food into Urban Planning written by Yves Cabannes and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities. While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo. By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.
Download or read book Counter currents written by Edgar A. Pieterse and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors."--Introduction.
Download or read book African Solutions written by South Africa. Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Common Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Checking the Risks written by Douglas L. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
