Urban Renewal in South African Cities

Massey, Ruth

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25369-1_17

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“…According to Massey (2020), South Africa's urban renewal commenced in 1994 at the start of their democracy. Urban renewal projects within its cities have been pursued to respond to urban decay and negligence.…”

Section: Urban Renewal In Post-colonial Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was also due to inadequate planning that was unjust. This is done through the renewal of specific areas of towns and the upgrading of informal settlements by the authorities in response to enhancing the living environment (Massey, 2020) Amado and Rodrigues (2019) studied urban regeneration based on heritage within Luanda in Angola. The project focused on rehabilitating buildings and public spaces within the city.…”

Section: Urban Renewal In Post-colonial Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring and Documenting Urban Renewal Projects in Kisumu City, Kenya with Emphasis on Preservation of Urban Landscape Identity

K’oyoo

2023

East Afr. j. eng.

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Urban renewal is undertaken to respond to physical deterioration within cities to improve the quality of urban life. Urban renewal in Africa is undertaken in once colonial societies with their existing spatial built forms undergoing changes in post-colonial times. This paper aimed to explore and document the various projects undertaken in Kisumu City's urban renewal in Kenya with emphasis on preservation of urban landscape identity. The main aim of the various projects was to improve the urban infrastructure, public facilities and spatial planning and carry out slum upgrading in addition to modernisation of public policies to improve public service delivery through effective city management. Consequently, several urban renewal projects were implemented in Kisumu City from 2019 to 2022. The research was done as a case study analysis of Kisumu City, Kenya, which has been undergoing the upgrading of various urban forms and spaces. Data capturing was based on mixed methods, including archival records, mapping, photographic documentation, and semi-structured interviews. This paper sets out the categories of ongoing and completed projects and describes them in terms of project locations, type of project, what components it entailed. Data collection was through desk review on urban renewal and review of City of Kisumu documents, interviews and field investigations. The interviews were carried out with purposively selected officials from Kisumu County including the City Planning Department, Environment Department, Kisumu Urban Project. The findings revealed the projects included non-motorised transport (NMT) within the CBD that comprises the improvement of pedestrian walkways, parking spaces, construction of new markets, bus parks, rehabilitation of public parks, beautification of roundabouts, road islands and proposed new high-rise affordable housing

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Section: Urban Renewal In Post-colonial Africamentioning

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Section: Urban Renewal In Post-colonial Africamentioning

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Exploring and Documenting Urban Renewal Projects in Kisumu City, Kenya with Emphasis on Preservation of Urban Landscape Identity

K’oyoo

2023

East Afr. j. eng.

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“…Alas, market-led gentrification in Cape Town has become 'a well-established process' and a 'major force in [its] remaking and re-imagination' [4] (p. 201). The city's area renewal strategy presents a 'very clear danger' of 'fueling instability and division' [5] (p. 278) between a 'vibrant City Bowl' surrounded by 'affluent and leafy suburbs with exceptional amenities', and the majority not featured in the glitzy tourism pamphlets and investment brochures of the 'more advanced' internationally precedent-setting public-private partnership. The unfeatured poor majority live in the 'patchwork of intensely crowded informal settlements barely tolerated in various parts of the city', the 'unauthorised shanty towns', and the 'austere and inhospitable dormitory settlements on the treeless sandplains of the Cape Flats' [6] (p. 73).…”

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Saving or Seizing the City: Discursive Formations in Cape Town, South Africa

2022

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‘Neoliberalism’ is the dominant theme pervading numerous studies of post-apartheid urban development in Cape Town. This often renders invisible the many nuances and complexities embedded within its transitions. Via critically examining the assumption of the neoliberal usurpation of urban governance in Cape Town’s policy formation, this paper highlights critical historical contingencies from 1994; contingencies framing a discursive formation as less the choreographies of global capitalism and more the committed and sincere mobilisation of a local, grassroots movement to ‘save’ the city from urban decline. Largely unacknowledged in the literature, its exploration is crucial to transiting from a putative and omnipotent neoliberalism as a bottomless well of explanation to admitting and appreciating subjective agency in the origins, evolution and trajectory of the city’s urban development. This, in turn, furnishes insights about the metamorphosis and mutation of the original—ostensibly sincere—discursive formation into the particularly powerful and potent form of market-led urban regeneration sponsored in Cape Town today.

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“…Following the inception of free democracy in South Africa in 1994, urban renewal projects have been actively pursued in the bid to redress decades of inadequate policy planning, segregation, neglect and subsequent decay in its cities [1]. These factors of neglect and the subsequent decay of cities throughout the country (among other reasons) have ultimately led to the very high cost of well-located land, and thus making them inaccessible and unaffordable to the less fortunate [2].…”

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An investigation into green gentrification in the Silo District, Cape Town, South Africa

Ordor

Spriestersbach

Aitken

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Despite the plethora of studies on gentrification, knowledge about green gentrification is limited, especially in a South African context. Green gentrification is the process in which providing green amenities and cleaning up pollution attracts wealthier residents or tenants to a previously rundown neighbourhood, thereby increasing property values. This paper explores whether the characteristics of green gentrification can be identified in the transformation of the Silo District of the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, and therefore its effect on the perception of ‘green gentrification’, if it is found to occur in the area. The research was based on a single case study with three sources of data collection – a critical literature review, photographic and documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews. The findings show that the transforming of the Silo District, by implementing green and environmental amenities, attracted wealthy individuals and organisations to the area. The findings show that green gentrification occurs in the Silo District, and its transformation had a limited influence on this perception. The study reveals an inadvertent insidious phenomenon in redevelopment initiatives, especially with growing consciousness of sustainability issues. However, the limitations of a single case study research makes further research imperative, and results tested using contextually relevant methods.

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Urban Renewal in South African Cities

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Exploring and Documenting Urban Renewal Projects in Kisumu City, Kenya with Emphasis on Preservation of Urban Landscape Identity

Exploring and Documenting Urban Renewal Projects in Kisumu City, Kenya with Emphasis on Preservation of Urban Landscape Identity

Saving or Seizing the City: Discursive Formations in Cape Town, South Africa

An investigation into green gentrification in the Silo District, Cape Town, South Africa

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