scholarly journals Restructuring Gauteng City Region in South Africa: Is a Transportation Solution the Answer?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Chakwizira ◽  
Peter Bikam ◽  
Thompson A. Adeboyejo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
City Region

scholarly journals Mobility patterns in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Culwick ◽  
Graeme Gotz ◽  
Samy Katumba ◽  
Guy Trangoš ◽  
Chris Wray
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
City Region

Quality of Life in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Everatt
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
South Africa ◽  
City Region

Infrastructure, City-Region Development, and Africa's Territorial Spaces

2019 ◽  
pp. 186-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Innocent Chirisa ◽  
Gift Mhlanga ◽  
Abraham Rajab Matamanda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Level ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
City Region ◽  
Good Case ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
The City ◽  
Broad Understanding

The chapter seeks to investigate, explore, and document the management and development of infrastructure in city-regions within the context of Africa. The specific objectives guiding the chapter are to explore the significance of the city-region concept in Africa, to examine the state of and approaches to infrastructure development in selected city-regions in Africa, to assess the approaches that have been used to facilitate the success of the such city-regions as the Gauteng in South Africa with regards infrastructure development and management, and to draw the lessons and positive implications for planned infrastructure development in city-regions in Africa. Hence, the Gauteng City Region provides a good case because the city-region is of utmost significance to the local, regional and national level. Specifically, data were gathered through a desktop approach wherein various plans and city visions will be critically analyzed to have a broad understanding of the issues on the ground.

scholarly journals Local Authority Responses to Climate Change in South Africa: The Challenges of Transboundary Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Leck ◽  
David Simon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
City Council ◽  
City Region ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Recent progress and innovation are testament to the willingness of municipal authorities to address climate change. However, urban regions worldwide exhibit an immense diversity of conditions, capabilities and responses to the challenges of changing climatic conditions. While separated by politico-administrative borders, adjacent municipalities within such regions are connected through biophysical, politico-economic, and social systems likely to be reconfigured under changing climatic/environmental conditions. Yet, to date, politico-administrative borders have largely determined the parameters of local government climate change adaptation strategies, with insufficient attention to the role of inter-municipal collaboration, especially between neighbouring rural, peri-urban and urban municipalities, for co-ordinating such policies and interventions. Within a multi-level governance framework, this paper considers the recent evolution of climate agendas in the eThekwini (formerly Durban City Council) metropolitan municipality and the adjacent Ugu (predominantly rural) district municipality on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN), South Africa, focusing particularly on cross-border collaboration within the greater city region. The challenges were investigated by means of 53 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with municipal, regional and local authority association staff in November 2009, March 2012, and August 2017. Our core argument is that weak inter-municipal collaboration, particularly between urban, peri-urban and rural areas within metropolitan and functional city regions, has been a significant impediment to realizing transformative adaptation within such regions. The experiences of these two contiguous yet contrasting municipalities represent a microcosm of the dramatic discontinuities and inequalities on all variables within adjacent urban metropolitan and rural contexts in South Africa and beyond. Despite promising recent signs, the challenges of inter-municipal collaborative action are therefore formidable.

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