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Urban governance in post-apartheid cities : modes of engagement in South Africa's metropoles /​ Christoph Haferburg &​ Marie Huchzermeyer (eds.).

Contributor(s): Publisher: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014Description: xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869142599 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 307.760968 HAF 012123
Contents:
Pt. I. Urban governance in post-apartheid cities in context. pt. II. City visions and urban interventions : engagements of the state. Critical overview of the instruments for urban transformation in South Africa -- The agonistic state : metropolitan government responses to city strife post-1994 -- Transforming the post-apartheid city through Bus Rapid Transit. pt. III. The fragile base of the city : currents and dynamics at community level. Contours of urban community politics : Johannesburg -- Reconceptualising xenophobia, urban governance and inclusion : Khutsong -- Undoing the silencing of the present : the imperative to recognise the shack settlement as a site of politics -- Entangled or empowered? Networks of grassroots organisations and NGOs in housing and human settlement processes. pt. IV. Private sector. City of layers : Johannesburg -- The private security industry in urban management -- Johannesburg's Bad Buildings Programme -- Social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility in Johannesburg's inner city housing and revitalisation strategies -- The local governance dynamics of international accolades : Cape Town's designation as World Design Capital 2014. pt. V. Governing through place and space. Post-World Cup effects and local regeneration strategies in Johannesburg and eThekwini -- The sugarcane frontier : governing the production of gated space in KwaZulu-Natal -- Women and urban governance : the disjuncture between policy and everyday experiences in intimate spaces.
Summary: "Urban governance as a term captures the complex interaction between stakeholders or groupings which influence urban development. In South Africa, this complexity emerged with the transition from apartheid more than two decades ago. Today, governance influences priorities in a wide range of urban domains, from public transport to policing; from engagements at the neighbourhood level to city-wide strategies. In different configurations, urban governance shapes inner city districts and gated estates on the urban periphery. The contributors to this volume cover urban governance in contemporary South Africa across three spheres, the state, the community and the private sector, through a variety of lenses. Spatial concerns are central to many of the analyses and case studies, in which the authors highlight different modes that influence the steering of South Africa's largest cities. The range of insights provided by the authors illuminates post-apartheid tensions and urban dynamics in a way that will be of value to scholars, practitioners, decision-makers, politicians and activists alike. This is the most important work yet on cities in post-apartheid South Africa. It does not reduce them to technical problems and their residents to recipients of 'service delivery'. Rather, it sees cities as what they are - political spaces in which some fight for inclusion while others work to exclude them. Its chapters produce detailed accounts of the alliances and conflicts which are generated daily in our cities - they are essential reading for an understanding of urban South Africa today."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Urban governance in post-apartheid cities in context. pt. II. City visions and urban interventions : engagements of the state. Critical overview of the instruments for urban transformation in South Africa --
The agonistic state : metropolitan government responses to city strife post-1994 --
Transforming the post-apartheid city through Bus Rapid Transit. pt. III. The fragile base of the city : currents and dynamics at community level. Contours of urban community politics : Johannesburg --
Reconceptualising xenophobia, urban governance and inclusion : Khutsong --
Undoing the silencing of the present : the imperative to recognise the shack settlement as a site of politics --
Entangled or empowered? Networks of grassroots organisations and NGOs in housing and human settlement processes. pt. IV. Private sector. City of layers : Johannesburg --
The private security industry in urban management --
Johannesburg's Bad Buildings Programme --
Social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility in Johannesburg's inner city housing and revitalisation strategies --
The local governance dynamics of international accolades : Cape Town's designation as World Design Capital 2014. pt. V. Governing through place and space. Post-World Cup effects and local regeneration strategies in Johannesburg and eThekwini --
The sugarcane frontier : governing the production of gated space in KwaZulu-Natal --
Women and urban governance : the disjuncture between policy and everyday experiences in intimate spaces.

"Urban governance as a term captures the complex interaction between stakeholders or groupings which influence urban development. In South Africa, this complexity emerged with the transition from apartheid more than two decades ago. Today, governance influences priorities in a wide range of urban domains, from public transport to policing; from engagements at the neighbourhood level to city-wide strategies. In different configurations, urban governance shapes inner city districts and gated estates on the urban periphery. The contributors to this volume cover urban governance in contemporary South Africa across three spheres, the state, the community and the private sector, through a variety of lenses. Spatial concerns are central to many of the analyses and case studies, in which the authors highlight different modes that influence the steering of South Africa's largest cities. The range of insights provided by the authors illuminates post-apartheid tensions and urban dynamics in a way that will be of value to scholars, practitioners, decision-makers, politicians and activists alike. This is the most important work yet on cities in post-apartheid South Africa. It does not reduce them to technical problems and their residents to recipients of 'service delivery'. Rather, it sees cities as what they are - political spaces in which some fight for inclusion while others work to exclude them. Its chapters produce detailed accounts of the alliances and conflicts which are generated daily in our cities - they are essential reading for an understanding of urban South Africa today."--Back cover.

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