The Making of an Apartheid City: The Case of Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa

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Title:	The Making of an Apartheid City: The Case of Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa
Author:	Nel, J.G.
Year:	1989
Periodical:	African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108)
Volume:	4
Issue:	3-4
Period:	August-November
Pages:	330-340
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs., maps
Geographic terms:	South Africa Southern Africa
Subjects:	apartheid property rights segregation urban planning Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Urbanization and Migration urbanization Port Elizabeth (South Africa) Racial segregation City planning history
Abstract:	In the 1950s, the government of the Republic of South Africa embarked upon the implementation of the philosophy of apartheid whereby the various population groups have been systematically separated from one another according to a uniform policy of geographical segregation. Residential, commercial, recreational and political urban space were manipulated by means of discriminatory legislation, State-directed urban planning policies and administrative strategies in order to implement and maintain the philosophy of racial segregation. Focusing on the impact of the 1950 Group Areas Act, which determined the residential status of white, coloured, Indian, Chinese, and Malay groups, this paper traces the planning, introduction, and implementation of the residential and economic partitioning process at Port Elizabeth, its spatial impact on the multiracial settlement patterns, as well as the spatial manifestation of subsequent policy changes. Notes, ref.