ABSTRACT
Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.
In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by apartheid. This book covers the experience of the planning community, the extent to which their aims were achieved, and the hindering factors.
Although some of the factors affecting planning have been context-specific, the nature of South Africa’s transition and its relationship to global dynamics have meant that many of the issues confronting planners in other parts of the world are echoed here. Issues of governance, integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and values are significant, and the particular nature of the South African experience lends new insights to thinking on these questions, exploring the possibilities of achievement in the planning field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|72 pages
Setting The Scene
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter 1|20 pages
Planning The Spaces of Colonialism and Apartheid
chapter Chapter 2|18 pages
New Planning Visions
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Planning Post-Apartheid
part 2|38 pages
Planning and Governance
chapter |4 pages
Introduction: International Debates
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
Planning and Local Governance
chapter Chapter 5|20 pages
Planning as Governance Beyond The Local: The Regional Question, National and Provincial Planning
part 3|62 pages
Discourses of Planning
chapter |4 pages
Introduction: International Debates
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
Discourses of The Spatial
chapter Chapter 7|8 pages
Discourses of Social Transformation
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Discourses of The Economy and The Market
chapter Chapter 9|14 pages
Discourses of Sustainability
part 4|82 pages
Planning and Society