Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning: Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition

ISBN-13: 9780415270595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str.

Vanessa Watson;Watson Vanessa

Opis

This text addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the built environment. The requirement that the segregrated apartheid cities be restructured, reintegrated and made accessible to the poor was high on the agenda of the new post-apartheid government, even prior to their election.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. 'What's Needed is a Metropolitan Plan'. 2. Cape Town as a 'Compact, Integrated' City? 3. Legitimating the Plan: The Western Cape Economic Development Forum. 4. 'No-One Disputed That There Should be a Physical Plan'... The Participation Process in Practice. 5. South Africa Post-1994: New Systems of Government and Planning. 6. Dusting Off the Old Planning Legislation: Can We Make the Metropolitan Plan Legal? 8. New Discourse Coalitions and the Marginalization of Spatial Planning. 9. Beyond the MSDF: Issues for Planning. References. Index.

O autorze

Vanessa Watson is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Cape Town, South Africa