The evolution of the spatial pattern of white residential development and the housing market in Johannesburg
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2015-04-29
Authors
Hart, Graeme Hilton Thurlow
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Abstract
The problem of residential development and the
price of residential property is investigated
through an empirical study of the city of
Johannesburg from its inception in 1886 to 1972.
The analysis is temporal and spatial and is based
upon municipal valuations and sales data of
residential property. The analytic framework is
developed from urban growth theory on the one
hand, and the theory of the urban land market, on
the other. The findings reveal that both
residential development and residential property
prices are dependent upon a wide variety of
socially rooted and economically rooted
determinants and that these act in concert to
produce the dynamic spatial pattern found in the
urban system.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Johannesburg, 1974