The South African area-based urban renewal programme: experiences from Cape Town

Donaldson, Ronnie; Plessis, Danie Du; Spocter, Manfred; Massey, Ruth

doi:10.1007/s10901-013-9348-3

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“…rural and peri-urban areas [89]. Open spaces in low-cost housing schemes have historically been under-provisioned [16,88,90], and recent attempts at greening have in some cases been constrained by limited open space (PM2), or used exotic species (EM4). In the wider context of present-day open space management, traditional land claims and trusts may at times challenge or dispute land zoning for biodiversity conservation or public recreation (EM2, EM5).…”

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Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Sardeshpande

Shackleton

2020

PLoS ONE

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Gathering of uncultivated food from green spaces, also known as foraging, is observed in urban areas across the world, but the literature focuses predominantly on the global north. Our study examines the existing urban land management structure and its approach to urban foraging in the eastern coastal region of South Africa. Through interviews with municipal officials in nine cities, we identified different stakeholders and their roles in urban green space management. We then used network analysis to represent interactions and influence of these stakeholders, and environmental worldviews to determine organisational and perceptual barriers to and enablers of foraging in urban green spaces. The policy on urban green space management, as well as land managers themselves are amenable to the concept of foraging in public spaces. Lack of knowledge on wild indigenous species and sustainable offtake, ambiguous, coarse, or lacking policy, and normative views of pristine nature may hinder foraging. We recommend pathways for policy and stakeholder partnerships to incorporate sustainable foraging in their biodiversity conservation and land stewardship strategies.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

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Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Sardeshpande

Shackleton

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Since the end of apartheid and the beginning of a democratic dispensation, national urban planning initiatives have focused on strengthening economic development to improve equity and equality within the country (South African Government, n.d.). Such programs include the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP, 1994), Urban Renewal Program (Donaldson et al, 2013) and the National Development Plan (National Planning Commission, 2012). The latter two programs highlight sustainability as necessary to achieve the desired outcomes.…”

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Environmental worldviews and attitudes of public-sector urban planners in shaping sustainable urban development: the case of South Africa

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Sinasson Sanni

2024

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Public-sector urban planners are essential role-players in the development of sustainable cities. However, there is relatively little understanding of their perceptions of sustainability generally and how or where they obtain information and knowledge around urban sustainability, especially in the Global South. This study, therefore, adopted a mixed-methods approach, employing both an online survey (34 valid respondents) and eight in-depth interviews (together spanning 31 different municipalities), to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and worldviews (based on the New Ecological Paradigm scale) of public-sector planners in South Africa. Generally, the planners held ecocentric worldviews and acknowledged the importance of sustainable urban development and the need to understand urban ecological dynamics and principles in planning and urban greening. However, they also identified a range of factors that hinder their ability to plan for sustainable futures, including institutional flaws, politics and misaligned development goals. Most felt that the extent and distribution of urban green infrastructure in their municipality was below what they deemed as ideal, although the majority were unaware of national guidelines in this respect. Consequently, perceptions and worldviews appeared to be misaligned with what is prioritized and implemented. Therefore, environmental issues and ecological principles need to be better communicated to public-sector urban planners.

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“…This has indirectly further marginalised the underclass by relocating the urban poor in areas far from economic opportunities and increased the racial and economic homogeneity in poor neighbourhoods (Lalloo 1999;Huchzermeyer 2001). The intrusion of formal commerce into former township areas also results in a net leakage of local disposable income away from local informal retailers, whilst providing only a small number of low-skilled jobs (Donaldson et al 2013). Thus, recent areabased urban revitalisation and regeneration programmes, in which private retail development was subsidised by the state, results in the further economic marginalisation in poor neighbourhoods.…”

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Hypersegregation and Class-Based Segregation Processes in Cape Town 2001–2011

Geyer

Mohammed

2015

Urban Forum

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Evidence indicates that class-based segregation is replacing racial segregation in South Africa. However, it is also suggested that hypersegregation, being indirect racial and economic segregation of poor neighbourhoods due to selective outmigration is occurring. The study analyses whether hypersegregation and class-based segregation is occurring in the Cape Town municipal area, what causal factors could possibly contribute to these trends and the descriptive characteristics of these processes. The study employs descriptive statistics to determine whether changes in neighbourhood characteristics fit the characteristics of hypersegregation and class-based segregation theories and spatial analysis to determine whether poverty and wealth is clustering. The study also uses multivariate statistics to find significant correlations between observed poverty levels, segregation characteristics and possible causal factors. The findings indicate that differences in neighbourhood poverty levels is widening, and extreme poverty neighbourhoods and low poverty neighbourhoods are clustering spatially and polarising from each other. Descriptive statistics indicate that neighbourhood characteristics fit the descriptions of hypersegregation and class-based segregation and that neighbourhood changes can be linked to housing ecology and subcultural variables as possible causal factors. However, multivariate districts indicate that although there is a significant correlation with the economic characteristics of class-based segregation, there is no significant relationship between poverty levels and racial segregation. Hypersegregation and class-based segregation is economic in nature, not racial. Finally multivariate statistics also indicate the significance of housing ecology and subcultural variables as possible causal factors in class-based segregated neighbourhoods, whilst housing ecology factors alone is significantly correlated to hypersegregation.

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The South African area-based urban renewal programme: experiences from Cape Town

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential

Environmental worldviews and attitudes of public-sector urban planners in shaping sustainable urban development: the case of South Africa

Hypersegregation and Class-Based Segregation Processes in Cape Town 2001–2011

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