ABSTRACT
Structurally, the growth of South African settlements has primarily been moulded by three interrelated forces: market-driven responses, public planning and informal settlement formation. The distinction between these processes of development and the resultant forms is blurred: patterns and forms of market-driven processes were informed by planning ideologies and planning approvals; market processes have taken root within largely planned environments; and so on. Nevertheless the distinction is conceptually useful. Obviously, the distinction between these processes of development and the resultant forms is blurred: patterns and forms of market-driven processes were informed by planning ideologies and planning approvals; market processes have taken root within largely planned environments; and so on. In terms of more planned environments, the growth of South African settlements since the 1930s has been dominated by two overriding ideologies: of modernism and of apartheid.
