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Title: | Differential Urbanization in South Africa and its Consequences for Spatial Development Policy |
Author: | Geyer, Hermanus S. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | August-November |
Pages: | 276-291 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills., maps |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Southern Africa |
Subjects: | apartheid internal migration urbanization urban planning Development and Technology Urbanization and Migration Politics and Government urban development Development policy |
Abstract: | Mainstream population migration patterns are often used as spatial-economic indicators in the formulation of urbanization policy. However, undercurrent migration patterns may differ fundamentally from the former and may be equally important in the formulation of a country's urbanization policy. The simultaneous occurrence of more than one migration pattern in the same area is referred to as 'differential urbanization'. Statistical evidence is given in this paper of two opposing migratory patterns occurring at the same time in the urban economic sphere of South Africa: the blacks tend to concentrate spontaneously in the larger metropolitan areas, while the whites are beginning to deconcentrate. These patterns cannot be ignored in the formulation of urbanization policy in the country. The State's national development policy and the role apartheid plays in it are viewed against the background of various urbanization strategy options, which include dispersal oriented policies (Bantustan development, a laissez-faire approach), concentration-oriented policy options, and a system-of-cities approach. Finally, policy options are presented which take cognizance of the present urbanization patterns in South Africa. Notes, ref. |