Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367639105 / Twarda / 2023 / 176 str.

Stuart Denoon-Stevens

Opis

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management.

Spis treści

1.   Introduction

            Change required

Land use management

            Argument for change

                        Changing values

                        Democracy in South Africa

                        Local government transition

            Complexity and general resilience

            Structure of the book

             

2.  Evolution of land use management

            Early rules and generative codes

            Regulation based on zoning codes

                        First zoning controls: France, 1810

                        German approach

                        Spread of zoning

Brief overview of the evolution of land use management in South Africa

            Early beginnings

            Influence of the discovery of diamonds and gold

            First provincial planning legislation

            Planning legislation 1900–1994

            Situation prior to 1994

1994–2013: From development control to land use management

            Development Facilitation Act, 1995

            Draft Green Paper

            2001 White Paper on Spatial Planning and Land Use Management

            Land use management bills, draft provincial legislation and SPLUMA

Current land use management system

 

3.  Planning theory and its applicability to the Global South

            Introduction

            Procedural Northern planning theories

                        Modernism and planning

                        Collaborative and communicative planning

            Critical Northern theories

                        Marxism, power, and planning

                        Diffusion of power

                        Social justice and inclusion

Spatial theories: Smart growth, new urbanism, transit-oriented development, and liveability

                        Sustainability

            Northern theories in an African context

            Towards theories for planning in Africa

                        Sustainability

                        Tactical urbanism

            Informality

                        Informal settlements

                        Informality and livelihoods

            Complexity

            Conclusion

           

4.  Why the current system is inadequate for the South African context

            Introduction

Problems of African land use management

                        Inequality and exclusion

                        Overview of the inadequacies of the current system

                        Traditional areas

                        Lack of recognition of African cultures

                        Urban areas

                        Informal livelihoods

                        Informal settlements

                        Backyard dwellings

                        Sprawling, poor quality, and unsustainable urban form

                        Control-orientated

            Causes

                        Power, politics, and corruption

                        Conflicting and competing rationalities

                        Customary land tenure and contested leadership

                        Capacity, bureaucracy, and the aspirations’ mismatch

 

5. Principles and options for a land use management system to support sustainable and equitable settlements

            Introduction

            Principles

                        Acknowledge and work with change

                        Land use regulations can change

                        Regenerative sustainability

                        Social justice and inclusion

                        Economic development and livelihoods

                        Context matters

            Other land use management systems

                        Restrictive conditions and covenants in title deeds

                        Plan-based controls

                        Site development plans

                        Form-based codes

                        Performance standards

                        Nomocracy

Basket of rights

                        Discretionary system

            Conclusion

    

6.  A Southern approach to sustainable land use management

            Simplifying the system

                        Current system

                        Options to simplify the system

            Rural regions

                        Natural areas

                        Commercial farming areas

                        Traditional rural areas

            Urban spaces

                        Small towns

                        Peri-urban regions

                        Townships

                        Informal settlements

                        Suburbia

                        Central areas

            Special areas

                        Industrial

                        Renewable energy

                        Mining

 

7.  Conclusion

 

Glossary

O autorze

Verna Nel is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She had extensive experience in local government, including as Chief Town Planner in the Centurion Town Council and the City of Tshwane’s City Planning Function, before joining the university. She has published on spatial governance, urban resilience, secondary cities, and the impacts of mining on communities. She is a consultant on land use management.

Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University (UK). Initially working as a planner in development control, since 2015 he has been working as an academic, conducting research on topics such as development control, housing, spatial planning for mining towns, and planning practice and education. He has been involved in high-level policy and legislative work relating to planning legislation and spatial planning in South Africa and has previously co-led a major NRF-ESRC project focused on planning education and practice in South Africa.