Private policing in South Africa: The Cape Town city improvement district — pluralisation in practice

Berg, J.Th.J. van den

doi:10.1080/21528586.2004.10419117

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“…In South Africa, researchers analyse CIDs as tools of local urban management, security policing (Berg 2004) or local economic development (LED) (Rogerson 1996). Other authors describe CIDs as part of the neoliberal or entrepreneurial debates, focusing on their governance structure (Dubresson 2008), the declension of the model in a single city (Murray 2008; Peyroux 2008), or the policy transfer process in terms of “best practices” (Didier, Peyroux and Morange 2009).…”

Section: Business Improvement Districts Neoliberal Urbanisation and mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a context where urban decline was less advanced and urban regeneration already on the public agenda (St George's Mall was revamped in the late 1980s for instance), it is the security component of the BID model that first appealed to property owners. As in Johannesburg, the original focus was on “crime and grime”, and CIDs entered Cape Town as tools of security policing (Berg 2004). Only at a later stage did the model evolve toward a broader regeneration agenda, when the CTP became a bilateral partnership between the City and the business owners of the CBD.…”

Section: Cids and Local Permeabilities To Neoliberalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale: Fifteen Years of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Didier¹,

Morange

Peyroux

2012

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: By unravelling the adoption and adaptation of the North American Business Improvement District (BID) model in South African cities, this paper considers the way neoliberal principles are making their way in the post‐apartheid context. Drawing on a comparative approach of BIDs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, we analyse the tensions and conflicts surrounding their implementation and unpack the resilience of this model. As unexpected as this resilience might be in such a context, that is, far away from the heartland of neoliberalism, we argue that this resilience is linked to the permeability of the local contexts and to the plasticity of the model itself at the city and neighbourhood levels, reflecting a capacity to adapt to inherited regulatory frameworks, patterns of territorial development and embedded socio‐political alliances of the local terrains, as well as an ability to accommodate post‐apartheid issues through the crafting of what we refer to as “local Third Ways”.

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Section: Business Improvement Districts Neoliberal Urbanisation and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cids and Local Permeabilities To Neoliberalisationmentioning

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The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale: Fifteen Years of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Didier¹,

Morange

Peyroux

2012

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“…While the designations and organizational and decision‐making structures of BIDs vary according to geographical contexts (Hoyt, 2005), South African CIDs share a set of key principles with their North American and European counterparts: they represent a form of business and landowners' organization at the neighbourhood level, dealing with the provision of additional services in order to improve commercial and residential areas in decline. They derive their funding from additional taxes (top‐ups) levied from these same owners (Berg, 2004; Morange and Didier, 2006a; Dubresson, 2008), and rely on the doxa of public–private partnership. They have proven popular in all major cities of the country, i.e.…”

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The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town: Urban Regeneration and the Neoliberal Agenda in South Africa

Didier¹,

Peyroux

Morange

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The spreading of city improvement districts (CIDs) and connected forms of public–private partnership as an international model of urban renewal has been linked to the rise of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ and the neoliberalization of policies and practices, at a time when competition between cities in the global economy has never been greater. The aim of this article is to explore the transfer and adaptation of the CID model in two cities of the South, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Arguing that CIDs are an example of the local embeddedness of neoliberalism, we highlight the role of the private sector in importing and adapting CIDs in South Africa, and point out the rise of techno‐politicians in CID management. Paying particular attention to discourses, we analyse the way images of decaying urban centres were used to legitimate the adoption of such schemes. The subsequent transformation of the model also enables us to explore the specificity of the adoption of this international best practice model in South Africa and its further circulation at the Southern African level. We conclude that while CIDs in South Africa raise familiar North American issues regarding the private management of public spaces, they also question the very nature of the African city model proposed and envisioned locally. Résumé La diffusion du modèle du CID et du principe du partenariat public–privéà l'échelle internationale pour servir des stratégies de renouvellement urbain a été lue comme conséquence de la montée en puissance de l'urbanisme entrepreneurial et comme l'avènement de pratiques et politiques néolibérales, ceci alors que la compétition économique mondiale entre les villes est plus vive que jamais. Les auteures s'attachent dans cet article à décrypter le processus de transfert et d'adaptation du modèle du CID dans deux villes du Sud, Johannesbourg et le Cap. L'argument central est que les CIDs offrent un cas d'école de l'ancrage local du néoliberalisme. Le rôle du secteur privé dans l'importation et la promotion du modèle en Afrique du Sud est souligné, et illustre la montée en puissance des techno‐politiciens dans les affaires urbaines. Faisant une place particulière aux discours, les auteures analysent la façon dont les images du déclin des centres ont légitimé l'adoption du modèle. La transformation ultérieure du modèle permet par ailleurs de réfléchir aux spécificités de l'ancrage de ce modèle de «best practice» en Afrique du Sud et sa circulation à l'échelle de l'Afrique australe: alors que les CIDs nous renvoient à des questions relatives à la gestion privée des espaces publics déjà traitées dans les contextes du Nord, ils permettent également de réfléchir à la nature même du modèle de ville africaine proposé ici.

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“…Les résidents ont alors été invités à s'acquitter d'une cotisation mensuelle qui, pour les locataires, entre dans les charges du logement. A la différence d'un CID légiféré pour lequel la redevance payée par les propriétaires serait obligatoires (Berg, 2004), les frais de fonctionnement du partenariat de Rondebosch ne peuvent être couverts que par les cotisations volontairement versées à l'association. L'obligation d'adhérer au RCID -et donc de payer la redevance-n'a aucun fondement légal.…”

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Private policing in South Africa: The Cape Town city improvement district — pluralisation in practice

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale: Fifteen Years of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town and Johannesburg

The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale: Fifteen Years of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town and Johannesburg

The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town: Urban Regeneration and the Neoliberal Agenda in South Africa

Partager la fonction répressive : la collaboration entre la police et une compagnie de sécurité privée dans un quartier aisé du Cap

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