ABSTRACT
Movement on foot and efficient public transportation must be central to structural thinking: the primary challenge is to make settlements as pedestrian-friendly as possible. For the majority of people the primary mode of movement is by foot. The unavoidable challenge is to create environments which are convenient and pedestrian-friendly. The highest order 'space-bridgers' are national and regional routes, which link settlements and resources in national and regional space and which play essential roles in achieving efficient national and regional space economies. Ideally, their locational dictates should be directed by these larger roles: they should move freely through parkland and countryside. Urban development should not follow these (as is the tendency at present) but should rather be directed by the internal logic of the settlement, which is entirely different. Promoting the emergence of corridors of this kind has become popular in South Africa in recent years.
