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| Title: | The suburban challenge: (de)segregation, opportunity, and community in Akasia, City of Tshwane |
| Authors: | Horn, André Ngcobo, June-Rose Buyisiwe  |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | Urban Forum |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 320-346 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | future race relations suburban areas |
| External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-003-0017-6 |
| Abstract: | Residential desegregation and social reform in urban South Africa are of particular interest when considered against the degree of separation and division that previously existed. The suburban region with the fastest rate of residential change in the City of Tshwane and in the entire Tshwane-Johannesburg conurbation is Akasia, with no less than 35 percent of a total of 2,821 residential property transfers between 1993 and 2000 to blacks. The authors' investigation of suburban racial change in the Akasia region includes quantitative, spatial and emotive assessment. Their attention to this historically once white suburban area was originally drawn by indications of the high influx of blacks, and by the proximity of black border towns as a probable catalyst for racial change in nearby white suburbs. Particular attention is also paid to structural and spatial assimilation, and to the opportunity of location. Orientations to society and community as influenced by past identities, and existing ties of social and cultural capital emerge as important factors for consideration. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |