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| Title: | Living in apartheid's shadow: residential planning for Africans in the PWV region 1970-1990 |
| Author: | Hendler, Paul |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | Urban Forum |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 39-80 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | segregation housing policy urban planning |
| External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036751 |
| Abstract: | During the 1980s changing State urban and housing policies were formulated in South Africa within the context of official land use regulations, that is, the guide plans. The unfolding of a national guide plan system defined the limits of further African residential settlement within the Pretoria/Witwatersrand/Vereeniging (PWV) region as well as in other regions of the country. In order to assess the impact of the formal planning system on township establishment, the author interprets the emergence of a spatial development strategy for the PWV region by focusing on both theoretical and historical developments, namely the various guide and other plans formulated for township establishment in the area, as well as the location and quantity of land actually allocated for such townships. From his analysis of the guide plans for the PWV complex's five subregions (Vaal River, Greater Pretoria, the West Rand, the East Rand/Far East Rand, and the Central Witwatersrand), his criticism of the assumptions about patterns of density underlying the population and land estimates on which the plans were based, and his assessment of the actual distribution of land for the location of African residential settlement it clearly emerges that the guide plans embodied earlier apartheid policy notions of dispersed and concentrated development and in fact reinforced the residential segregation of communities. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |