TY - JOUR
T1 - More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act
T2 - Housing, spatial planning and urban development in post-apartheid South Africa
AU - Newton, Caroline
AU - Schuermans, Nick
PY - 2013/11/1
Y1 - 2013/11/1
N2 - More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act, South Africa is facing a number of challenges with regards to housing, spatial planning and urban development. Government institutions, scholars, NGO's and local communities have been looking for innovative ways to improve the housing conditions of all South Africans. With this special issue, we aim to demonstrate that international insights cannot only be relevant to understand and enrich South African cases, but that an in-depth analysis of the South African experiments can also be meaningful for academic analyses and political decisions in other parts of the world. In order to stimulate such a cross-fertilization, this article will briefly summarize the current situation in South Africa in the public housing sector, the private housing sector and the self-help approach. We will also introduce the eight papers of this special issue.
AB - More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act, South Africa is facing a number of challenges with regards to housing, spatial planning and urban development. Government institutions, scholars, NGO's and local communities have been looking for innovative ways to improve the housing conditions of all South Africans. With this special issue, we aim to demonstrate that international insights cannot only be relevant to understand and enrich South African cases, but that an in-depth analysis of the South African experiments can also be meaningful for academic analyses and political decisions in other parts of the world. In order to stimulate such a cross-fertilization, this article will briefly summarize the current situation in South Africa in the public housing sector, the private housing sector and the self-help approach. We will also introduce the eight papers of this special issue.
KW - Comparative urbanism
KW - Housing
KW - South Africa
KW - Spatial planning
KW - Urban development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885840920&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10901-013-9344-7
DO - 10.1007/s10901-013-9344-7
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84885840920
SN - 1566-4910
VL - 28
SP - 579
EP - 587
JO - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
JF - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
IS - 4
ER -