Abstract:
This dissertation explores poverty in the inner city of Johannesburg. The
World Bank perspectives on describing poverty have been adopted as a
theoretical framework for understanding poverty in the inner city. The report
looks at the local government’s planning framework for the inner city, and
through Flyvberg’s theory of power and rationality, critically assess the
potential of the RSDF to alleviate poverty in the inner city. Through
Healey’s collaborative planning theory, the dissertation looks at possibility
of improving poverty alleviation in the inner City of Johannesburg.
Views were obtained from planning officials and community based
organisations engaged in development of the poor. Additionally, statistical
information from census 1996 and 2001 provide the reader with concrete
figures on poverty in the inner city of Johannesburg.
