Colonial, cultural planning, and decolonisation of South African urban space

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Mziwoxolo Sirayi ◽  
Devin Beauregard
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Planning

Spatial Injustice in Johannesburg in the Time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (826) ◽  
pp. 178-182
Author(s):  
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato ◽  
Sarah de Villiers ◽  
Sumayya Mohamed ◽  
Bonolo Mohulatsi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Space Structures ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Basic Services

Densely populated informal housing has mushroomed in formerly segregated South African townships, attracting migrants who survive on the edges of the economy, excluded from basic services. In the pandemic, they have been even more vulnerable, unable to practice social distancing and forced to continue with marginal work such as scavenging to eke out a living. Drawing on interviews with residents of a Johannesburg settlement, the authors emphasize how urban space structures inequalities in every aspect of everyday life, requiring a new approach to city planning and governance with a focus on justice.

South African Urbanization and Industrialization to 1948

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hyslop
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
African State ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
African City ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
South African Cities ◽  
Do So

The South African city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has often been viewed as moving inexorably toward the fully segregated urban space of the high apartheid era. However, insofar as this view suggests a unilinear process with an inevitable outcome, it is misleading. South African cities at the turn of the century, and even to some extent after the formation of the unified South African state in 1910, had far more porous racial boundaries than is sometimes realized. The mining revolution did generate a dramatic process of industrialization and urbanization characterized by great racial inequality and coercion. But segregationists were trying to impose a pattern on a complex hybrid reality and did not always do so effectively. Nor was state policy consistent, with repression being far less continuous than was the case under apartheid. The 1940s saw the development of a crisis, with contradictory forces and policy directions in urban society. Apartheid arose out of this context but was not the predetermined result of what had come before.

scholarly journals An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110126
Author(s):  
Tanya Zack ◽  
Loren B Landau
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
African State ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
The City

The spatial concentration of production in cities attracts international and domestic labour in ways that change the character and scale of urban space. Drawing on two decades of research on migration and informal trading in Johannesburg, South Africa, this article argues that the global trade in Chinese ‘fast fashion’ interacts with South Africa’s immigration policy, transportation networks, informal trade and established migration infrastructures to transform the city’s Park Station neighbourhood into an enclave entrepôt. Operated and supported by a network of informal logistics services that keep the enclave within but apart from the city, it is exquisitely tailored to cross-border shoppers. At the social and legal margins but at the city’s geographic core, it enables fluidity in an otherwise hostile space; it is at once highly visible and invisibilising. Formed in the shadows of formal institutions and law enforcement, this entrepôt is migrant-driven and serves the needs of people often seeking to remain invisible from the South African state and citizenry. As such, its services are adapted from the infrastructures that service legal and irregular migration in the subcontinent. Unlike ethnic enclaves or neighbourhoods that work as arrival zones, it provides the means to move ‘through’ rather than ‘into’ the city. The entrepôt is a form of migrant space-claiming by vulnerable and mobile people wishing to be in but not of the city. It acts as portal into, through and beyond national territory.

Cultural Planning for Urban Spaces: Cultural Turn of Contemporary Urban Planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 492-496
Author(s):  
Ling Huang ◽  
Wan Min Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Target System ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Cultural Planning

Urban cultural crisis becomes a common phenomenon under the background of current globalized wave and rapid urbanization; the traditional city planning emphasizes on shaping material spatial form and lacks deep understanding and respect towards city culture, leading to the loss of city characteristics. It mainly because the cultural values of the urban planning are not clear and the urban spatial planning is divorced from cultural planning seriously. This paper starts with the cultural duality of urban space, puts forward that it is inevitably logical to integrate the cultural planning into the urban planning system; It discusses the theories and methods of cultural planning for urban spaces from the target system construction, main content and operation system, stressing that the core of cultural planning for urban spaces is the combing of cultural spatial factors and spatial cultural structure, then propounds the way to melt it into existing city planning system to enhance urban planning to the new stage of cultural consciousness and initiative.

scholarly journals Reshaping urban space through studentification in two South African urban centres

Urbani izziv ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S176-S188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Donaldson ◽  
Julian Benn ◽  
Malene Campbell ◽  
Annelie De Jager
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Urban Space

Melancholia of Freedom

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Blom Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Religious Ethics ◽  
Nation State ◽  
African Society ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Depth Analysis

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, the book tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. The book demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. The book describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. The book also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.

scholarly journals Mutant City: On Partial Transformations in Three Johannesburg Narratives

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wright
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
South African ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Real ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The City

Abstract Since the fall of the apartheid regime, critical discourse on and popular imaginations of South Africa have focused with renewed intensity on the city of Johannesburg: its schizophrenic social organization, its fragmented geography, its “citadelization,” its “architecture of fear,” and its development within networks of global capital, all indexes of the ultimate failure of the nation to move beyond its segregated past. In this essay, I will focus on representations of Johannesburg's mutancy, a concept that foregrounds its temporal movements rather than its spatial calcification. In particular, I examine the uses to which the tropes of mutation and the figure of the mutant are put in a number of recent Johannesburg narratives. Mutation here is a logic of discontinuous transformation, distinct from “hybridity,” concerned less with mimicry and in-betweenness than with emergent forms of life in spaces where ideological forces have ceded to material ones. The speculative mutations in these texts give body to various forms of emergent, unconceptualized, or fantastic subjectivities, homologous with but not reducible to the “real” mutations taking place in South African urban space. I am ultimately interested in how these subjectivities inform various imaginations of futurity—catastrophic, deconstructive, and regenerative—within a country in which, as Imraan Coovadia has written, “the conditions for transcending the present are hardly to be conceived” (51).

The Three-dimensional structure of frozen-hydrated nudaurelia capensis β virus

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 650-651
Author(s):  
N. H. Olson ◽  
T. S. Baker ◽  
Wu Bo Mu ◽  
J. E. Johnson ◽  
D. A. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Rna Virus ◽  
Carbon Film ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Electron Dose ◽  
Total Electron ◽  
Three Dimensional Structure ◽  
Negative Stain ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction

Nudaurelia capensis β virus (NβV) is an RNA virus of the South African Pine Emperor moth, Nudaurelia cytherea capensis (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). The NβV capsid is a T = 4 icosahedron that contains 60T = 240 subunits of the coat protein (Mr = 61,000). A three-dimensional reconstruction of the NβV capsid was previously computed from visions embedded in negative stain suspended over holes in a carbon film. We have re-examined the three-dimensional structure of NβV, using cryo-microscopy to examine the native, unstained structure of the virion and to provide a initial phasing model for high-resolution x-ray crystallographic studiesNβV was purified and prepared for cryo-microscopy as described. Micrographs were recorded ∼1 - 2 μm underfocus at a magnification of 49,000X with a total electron dose of about 1800 e-/nm2.

New withanolides from a cross of a South African chemotype by chemotype II (Israel) in Withania somnifera

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1503-1507 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Eastwood
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Withania Somnifera
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