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Title: | Integrating South Africa's low-income residential areas into the wider urban economic and social system |
Authors: | Green, Cheri Naude, Andries Hennessy, Kier |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 138-155 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | urban planning road networks urban areas neighbourhoods |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036697 |
Abstract: | This paper is an extract drawn from a report of a project undertaken by the Division of Roads and Transport Technology of the CSIR (Stellenbosch) entitled 'Integrating low-income residential areas into the wider urban economic and social system' (1995). The project arose out of a concern that the typical low-income residential area in most of South Africa's cities is severely disadvantaged in terms of convenience, mobility, access and income-generating or investment-attracting ability, and that to a degree this can be attributed to the present inadequate road system. The study was based on case study investigation of the Guguletu, Nyanga and Crossroads area in metropolitan Cape Town. First, the principal structural deficiencies of the South African city are examined. Next, the paper outlines the concept of and criteria for the development of a more extensive network of secondary roads and access centres within the low-income residential areas of South African cities. It looks at road planning and provides guidelines specifically in terms of layout, road hierarchy, geometric design and access, and investment policy. It then looks at access centres and provides guidelines in terms of hierarchy and composition, location, and investment policy. |